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🌍 Upcoming Webinar Alert: Understanding Basel Amendments & Their Impact on the Electronics Processing Industry 🌍 Join us on July 16, 2024, at 2 PM EST for a crucial webinar hosted by Basel Action Network and SERI. We'll be diving into the recent and imminent amendments to the Basel Convention, focusing on their implications for e-waste processors. Speakers: Jim Puckett, BAN Mike Easterbrook, SERI Selena Turnock (Baranak), e-Stewards The session will start with insightful presentations by Jim Puckett, Mike Easterbrook, and Selena Turnock followed by a thorough Q&A session. This is a fantastic opportunity to understand the 2021 plastic waste amendments, the upcoming 2025 e-waste amendments, and the impact these amendments are having and will have on the electronics processing industry. Whether you're an industry professional, policy maker, or interested stakeholder, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge to navigate the changing regulatory landscape in electronic asset management. Reserve your spot today and join us for an engaging and informative session. #ITAD #ewaste #BaselConvention #EnvironmentalRegulation #Webinar 

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Where do your company's old laptops, desktops, printers, and phones end up? Out of sight, out of mind? Contact your representatives to demand better, and ask your IT Manager to contact me. We don't export, and can prove it. The United States has signed but not ratified the Basel Convention, which took effect in 1992. This international treaty limits the movement of hazardous waste (excluding radioactive materials) between countries. It was written to help curb the practice of richer, industrialized nations dumping their hazardous waste into less developed and less wealthy countries. The convention is now taking on the global scourge of plastic waste, of which the United States is the largest contributor. A new provision went into effect this year that seeks to curb the amount of waste shipped to other countries that can’t be recycled and ends up instead being burned or escaping into the environment. The Basel Convention has also worked to address electronic waste. The failure of the United States to ratify the treaty, experts say, has allowed companies to shift recycling of toxic computer components to developing countries. Outsourcing of plastic and e-waste recycling from the U.S. to developing countries has recently been linked to chemicals entering the food chain of the world’s poorest people.

About E-Waste and the Basel Convention… Yesterday concluded the Convention’s 14th Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) meeting. I attended the OEWG on behalf of my company, Sims Limited. Of critical importance to electronics recyclers, were continued discussions on improving the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) process that is fundamental to enabling the legitimate and environmentally sound import and export of Basel hazardous waste for recycling. With the Convention recently passing amendments essentially controlling all e-waste as Basel hazardous (irrespective of actual hazard) and hugely broadening the scope of covered wastes and materials subject to PIC as of January 1, 2025, it is vital that the regulated community can depend upon a process that facilitates, and does not prohibit, the circular flow of secondary materials for recycling. Given that the US is not a Party to the Basel Convention, the new e-waste classifications make trade more complicated for US recyclers, due to the Party-NonParty waste trade prohibition. How each country interprets the Amendments will impact how US companies do business. In that light, the EU held a side event explaining their new Waste Shipment regulations (that cover e-waste, among other wastes). Other issues of interest included discussions on the revision of the Convention’s strategic framework, plastics and technical guidelines on POPs; lead acid batteries, other batteries; and pneumatic tires. Finally, I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel hosted by the Basel Public-Private Partnership Addressing the Challenges Associated with E-Waste (PACE II) focusing on Repair, Refurbishment and Minimization of Waste TVs and Refrigeration Equipment. #Basel Convention #Electronics Recycling #Environmental Policy #Circular Economy

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CIRCULAR MOVEMENT: The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) is the cornerstone of the European Commission’s approach to more environmentally sustainable and circular products. In force since July 18, it is part of a package of measures that are central to helping the EU reach its environmental and climate goals, doubling its circularity rate of material use and to achieving its energy efficiency targets by 2030. Part of the ESPR is Digital Product Passport (DPP) scheme. This is a digital identity card for products, components, and materials, which will store relevant information to support products’ sustainability, promote their circularity and strengthen legal compliance. This information will be accessible electronically, making it easier for consumers, manufacturers, and authorities to make more informed decisions related to sustainability, circularity and regulatory compliance. It will allow custom authorities to perform automatic checks on the existence and authenticity of the DPPs of imported products. Information to be included in the DPP will be identified by the Commission, in close consultation with all relevant stakeholders, and will depend on the specific product in question. This information can include: the product’s technical performance; materials and their origins; repair activities; recycling capabilities and lifecycle environmental impacts. ▶ Full report: https://lnkd.in/gVkyJpJx ♻ At iWaste we are here for all your electronic recycling needs. Contact us now: ☎ 0330 1200 250 📨 [email protected]    #ewaste  #electronics  #WEEE  #electricals  #recycling  #sustainability  #environment