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Jim Puckett

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Name: Jim Puckett

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Used Electronic Products and Waste: To Export or Not to Export

With more and more new technology entering the marketplace every day, there has been a corresponding increase in used and end of life electronic products. Until recently, there had been very little data collected on the global market for used electronic ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - May 15 2013]

Entities: Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network, Recycling Inds Inc, Recycling

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 3 reports

Developing Countries Rally to Prevent Industry Efforts to Exempt e-Waste from Trade Controls

BAN Media ReleaseDeveloping countries joined forces this week to defeat attempts by electronic equipment manufacturers represented by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) and industrialized powers including the European Union, US, Japan, ... [Published Basel Action Network - May 09 2013]

Entities: Basel (Switzerland), Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network, Toxic

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Electronics Industry Lobbies to Classify e-Waste as non-Waste to allow Export to Developing Countries

“Export for Repair” Exemptions Would Allow Uncontrolled Exports of Obsolete, Junk ElectronicsBAN Media ReleaseAt this week’s meeting of the Basel Convention – an international treaty designed to protect developing countries from international toxic waste ... [Published Basel Action Network - May 05 2013]

Entities: Jim Puckett, Toxic, Recycling, Mercury, Basel Action Network

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

Apple Inc

Will Apple & Co. Throw Away Your Broken Gadgets in These Countries?

Are Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) and other tech companies pushing for legislation that would make it easier to send more e-waste to developing countries? A major tech industry trade association is seeking to alter the rules of an international convention that ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 05 2013]

Entities: Apple Inc, Recycling, Information Technology

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

CNET Networks Inc

Tech group pushing to ease rules for exporting broken phones

Workers at an electronics recycling operation in Guangzhou, China, separate plastic, metals, and wires as they pull apart computers.(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET) A trade group that represents Apple, Hewlett Packard and several other device makers, is pushing ... [Published CNET News - May 03 2013]

Entities: Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network, Toxic, CNET Networks Inc, Recycling

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Staples brings responsible e-waste recycling across the US

Staples becomes first electronics retailer to sign up to ambitious new eWaste recycling standardElectronic waste is among the most graphic examples of how the environment pays when businesses and consumers don't.Photos of computer parts strewn across ... [Published BusinessGreen - May 03 2013]

Entities: Staples (United States), Recycling, Jim Puckett, Developing World, Basel Action Network

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Staples brings responsible e-waste recycling across the U.S.

Electronic waste is among the most graphic examples of how the environment pays when businesses and consumers dont. Photos of computer parts strewn across natural landscapes and workers standing amongst mounds of lead-laden parts are troubling reminders ... [Published GreenBiz - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Staples (United States), Recycling, Jim Puckett

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

E-Waste Recycler ECOvanta Secures e-Stewards Certification

Managing Editor of Waste Management World magazineSponsored byECOvanta, the Philadelphia based electronics waste recycling subsidiary of Covanta Energy (NYSE: CVA), has been awarded e-Stewards certification by the Basel Action Network (BAN).The e-Stewards ... [Published Waste Management World - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Recycling, E-Waste, Certification

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Letter: Thank you 911 personnel for your service

During the week of April 14 through April 20, Rockford and Winnebago County 911 personnel will be honored for the vital service they provide to the citizens of Rockford and Winnebago County.When a citizen calls for police, fire or EMS assistance; these ... [Published Rockford Register Star - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Don Carlson, Jim Puckett, Joe James

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Connecticut College to host environmental justice conference

Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, will host "The Quest for Global Environmental Equity in an Increasingly Inequitable World" April 18-20.Speakers and panelists will bring diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives to address issues such ... [Published Norwich Bulletin - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Connecticut College, Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network

First reported Feb 13 2013 - Updated Feb 13 2013 - 1 reports

Europe's ship-breaking proposals may be illegal, lawyers warn

Leaked papers express grave concerns over the shipping industry's bid to overturn a treaty on the disposal of toxic waste Europe's plan to overturn a ban on contaminated ships being broken up in developing countries may be illegal, according to the European ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 13 2013]

Entities: Basel (Switzerland), Asbestos, Illegal, Vessel

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“Repair of electronics is a good thing of course,” said Puckett. "but repair can generate wastes when parts are replaced. and without controls, anyone can always make a claim that anything is repairable no matter what the intention. thus in now way can we just blow kisses and say bon voyage to shipments of e-waste, based on empty repair promises. we still need the international rules provided by the basel convention.”"

Developing Nations Vote 'No' to 'Digital Dump' [Published Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture - May 08 2013]

"this is really a very shocking effort to further widen the floodgates of a tide of toxic techno-trash already inundating ports and dumps in africa and asia" Basel Action Network Executive Director Jim Puckett said in a statement

Tech group pushing to ease rules for exporting broken phones [Published CNET News - May 03 2013]

"[export] is the most lucrative way to get rid of electronic trash" says Puckett, who adds that the only way to ensure proper disposal or repurposing of electronic trash is for developed countries to do it within their...

Staples brings responsible e-waste recycling across the US [Published BusinessGreen - May 03 2013]

"We welcome ECOvanta into the growing ranks of truly responsible e-cyclers," said Jim Puckett, executive director of BAN. "only certified e-stewards recyclers ensure customers that their hazardous electronic waste is not exported to developing countries and will be recycled in accordance with the most secure practices in the world."

ECOvanta Achieves e-Stewards Certification for Electronics Recycling [Published SPi World News - Apr 20 2013]

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Electronics Industry Lobbies to Classify e-Wast... [Published Basel Action Network - May 05 2013]
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Tech group pushing to ease rules for exporting ... [Published CNET News - May 03 2013]
Staples brings responsible e-waste recycling ac... [Published BusinessGreen - May 03 2013]
Staples brings responsible e-waste recycling ac... [Published GreenBiz - Apr 30 2013]
ECOvanta Achieves e-Stewards Certification for ... [Published SPi World News - Apr 20 2013]
E-Waste Recycler ECOvanta Secures e-Stewards Ce... [Published Waste Management World - Apr 19 2013]
Letter: Thank you 911 personnel for your service [Published Rockford Register Star - Apr 15 2013]
Connecticut College to host environmental justi... [Published Norwich Bulletin - Apr 15 2013]
LifeSpan Achieves e-Stewards® Certification at ... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Mar 05 2013]
Europe's ship-breaking proposals may be illegal... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 13 2013]
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Will Apple & Co. Throw Away Your Broken Gadgets... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 05 2013] Are Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) and other tech companies pushing for legislation that would make it easier to send more e-waste to developing countries? A major tech industry trade association is seeking to alter the rules of an international convention ...

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LifeSpan Achieves e-Stewards® Certification at ... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Mar 05 2013]