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US e-waste still finds Asian recycling markets despite BAN campaign
US ELECTRONIC waste, old computers and their accoutrements, now traced by imbedded tracking devices, continue to find markets in Asia, according to the greatly disapproving Basel Action Network (BAN).
"We now see that instead of being recycled [in the US], 32.5 per cent of these devices, were exported overseas on containerships. Of the 149 trackers delivered just to recyclers, 39 per cent of these were exported'" said the Seattle-based BAN.
"These exports deprive our own nation of green jobs and make it difficult for responsible electronics recyclers to compete and survive," he said, adding that Asians will pay for the waste and recycle it profitably.
The American electronic waste is sold in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, said the report.
But the Tung Sing Recycle Company, of 55 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, has been in the environmental industry for several years and is specialised in electrical goods and says it does a good job.
Most of its waste was previously owned by factories or companies and it recycles include any kind of electronics components, computer parts, mobile phone parts and electrical appliances, said a company press release.
Said BAN executive director Jim Puckett: "Toxic e-waste is flowing off our shores every day to substandard operations, harming people and the environment across the globe.
"We now see that instead of being recycled [in the US], 32.5 per cent of these devices, were exported overseas on containerships. Of the 149 trackers delivered just to recyclers, 39 per cent of these were exported'" said the Seattle-based BAN.
"These exports deprive our own nation of green jobs and make it difficult for responsible electronics recyclers to compete and survive," he said, adding that Asians will pay for the waste and recycle it profitably.
The American electronic waste is sold in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, said the report.
But the Tung Sing Recycle Company, of 55 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, has been in the environmental industry for several years and is specialised in electrical goods and says it does a good job.
Most of its waste was previously owned by factories or companies and it recycles include any kind of electronics components, computer parts, mobile phone parts and electrical appliances, said a company press release.
Said BAN executive director Jim Puckett: "Toxic e-waste is flowing off our shores every day to substandard operations, harming people and the environment across the globe.
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