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Details on BAN’s new device-tracking service

Published: June 21, 2018
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Chris Brandt of BAN’s EarthEye program installing a tracker in a printer. Copyright BAN.

The Basel Action Network has launched a commercial tracking service to monitor e-scrap flows, and its first customer is an OEM that was lambasted by the watchdog group over exports two years ago.

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Wading into the complex currents of U.S. export regulation

Published: March 22, 2018
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The debate over the merits and pitfalls of e-scrap exporting has been alive and well for decades now, but one thing has remained clear: Choosing to ship material halfway around the world adds a thick layer of complication to the basic goal of managing the domestic e-scrap stream.

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BAN tracks e-scrap from Europe to Thailand

Published: May 24, 2018
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A Feb. 2, 2018 drone view of a site dubbed “dioxin factory,” where imported e-scrap is processed and circuit boards and wires are burned in a smelter.

A police raid at a massive e-scrap facility in Thailand prompted Seattle-based Basel Action Network to release results of its own investigations in the Southeast Asian country.

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Tracking service launched to provide eyes downstream

Published: May 24, 2018
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A computer tower with a tracking device provided by the Green Tracking Service (device at lower right).

A U.S. company has begun providing an e-scrap tracking service so processors and OEMs can see where their downstream vendors are sending devices. One processor is already regularly using the service.

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