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Organization Project
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| Project visible to | everybody |
| Name | Electronic Stewardship |
| Organization | Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange |
| Location | Washington State |
| Start date | ongoing |
| Project overview | Electronic waste generated by the US is exported (dumped) non-industrialized countries for "recycling" by displaced agricultural workers. Such trade follows the path of least economic resistance, whereby market forces ensure that environmental burdens always go downhill to communities of people least able to address the problem. It is one of the most exploitative areas of the prevailing unjust and unsustainable economic paradigm of globalization.
BAN's efforts promote responsibility by waste producers as we work to ban trade in toxic waste.
In our Electronic Waste Stewardship project, BAN will focus on two unique electronic waste initiatives in the United States to move the US toward more environmentally-sustainable and socially-just export and recycling practices, and to work with communities across the US to find the most strategic opportunities to build pressure for upstream solutions to prevent the generation of toxic waste in computers in the first place. Successful “extended producer responsibility” policies in this industry will serve as a model for other manufacturing industries.
See our website for more info - or contact us to help with this effort. |
| Issue areas | environment and ecosystems
health
corporate power/accountability
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