Western Nations Not Trimming E-Waste, BAN Says, Urging Southeast Asian Countries to OK Pact
With the U.S., Canada and European countries producing “the same volumes of waste" and showing "little willingness, nor, at times, the infrastructure to deal with it at home rather than find new destinations,” the Basel Action Network urged South and…
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Southeast Asian nations to ratify the Basel Ban Amendment to amend the Basel Convention agreed to by 194 countries to make it illegal to export such waste. Based on its GPS tracking, BAN said Tuesday, 40 percent of e-waste given recyclers is exported, mostly to Asia, with tracked devices arriving in Hong Kong, and increasingly Thailand and to Pakistan. In the region, Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka ratified the agreement, it said, noting the amendment is three ratifications short of becoming international law.