The executive director of Basel Action Network shoots down recent criticism of a report on exports to Nigeria.

BAN's leader responds to recent criticisms from electronics recycling companies that were named in a report last month.

Jim Puckett In his Sept. 14 op-ed piece, Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) Executive Director John Lingelbach expresses the belief that Basel Action Network's (BAN) publishing of export tracking data, including the names of companies that handled each tracker in its chain of export, is irresponsible without extensive and costly investigations completed prior to release of data. First, we would...

The online E-Scrap News article appearing last week entitled "Can export incentives help clean up Agbogbloshie?" announces a new program to improve the infamously polluted and polluting scrap recycling operations in the Agbogbloshie area of Accra, Ghana. The specifics provided in the article are scant and the story is missing details such as: Does the program exist? Who are the...

Steven Elmore, in his opinion piece entitled "BAN's tracking project missed opportunities to advance industry," seems to have complaints both about our study and about BAN's advocacy positions. Upon reflection, it might be the latter complaint that lies at the heart of his lament. But, first we would like to address his complaints about our study. At the outset, we will...

Last year, in the pages of E-Scrap News, the Basel Action Network (BAN) called out a growing trend of waste trade denial. Josh Lepawsky, co-author of a study we critiqued for diminishing the significance of e-waste export from developed to developing countries, responded in the December 2015 E-Scrap News magazine with a critique of his own. BAN welcomes a fair,...

This story originally appeared in the August 2015 issue of E-Scrap News.Subscribe today for access to all print content. The fate of the world does not likely hinge on whether or not the dumping of electronic waste, depicted over the years by the Basel Action Network (BAN) and the many journalists that followed, is a real problem or a hoax....