Toxic Trade News (2007)

• Growing by GREENetworking - 21 December 2007
• Ivory Coast Still Suffering from Toxic Spill - 15 December 2007
• Recycle that old computer - 11 December 2007
• All about Electronics - 10 December 2007
• EPA is testing ex-Navy ship for PCBs - 30 November 2007
• Go Go Gadget Recycling - 25 November 2007
• ENVIRONMENT-US: An E-Waste Free-for-All - 21 November 2007
• ‘Take Back My TV Campaign’ Launched in Time for Holiday Shopping Season - 21 November 2007
• Ex-hospital ship has toxic PCBs, report shows - 15 November 2007
• Proposed waste law to officially turn India into global waste destination - 14 November 2007
• Environmentalists Warn of Illegal Export of Toxic Naval Vessel from Baltimore: Ship Loaded with Toxic PCBs and Asbestos Could “Slip Away in the Night” - 13 November 2007
• Hazardous shipyards - 13 November 2007
• Plan for hospital ship questioned - 13 November 2007
• Waste follows the path of least resistance - 4 November 2007
• Shipload of Trouble - 3 November 2007
• Visayas Lawyers Say No to JPEPA - 23 October 2007
• Gadget recycling boosts dioxins in mothers’ milk - 22 October 2007
• China’s E-waste Management Rules Regulate Trash - 16 October 2007
• e-waste: The perils of hardware - 8 October 2007
• Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Knockout Japan Pact - 8 October 2007
• Setting a precedent for trafficking hazardous waste - 5 October 2007
• Japanese Citizens Strongly Support the Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition (MJJC)’s Campaign Against JPEPA - 3 October 2007
• RP senators ‘could reject’ Japan free trade deal - 2 October 2007
• Santiago says JPEPA in danger of not being ratified - 28 September 2007
• Environment Experts Shoot Down JPEPA at Senate Inquiry - 27 September 2007
• India: Groups Mad Over Ship Dismantling - 20 September 2007
• Blue Lady’s fate uncertain as activists to challenge SC - 17 September 2007
• Philippine Senate Leader to Oppose Economic Deal With Japan That Includes Toxic Waste Trade - 17 September 2007
• Human Rights and Environmental Groups Condemn India for Callous Disregard for its Poorest Labourers and the Law after Shipbreaking Ruling - 12 September 2007
• State recycling plan could be poison for other countries - 12 September 2007
• Warning: Washington State’s e-Waste Rules will Send Old Toxic Computers to Developing Countries - 12 September 2007
• Why Lead in Toy Paint? It’s Cheaper - 7 September 2007
• Senate Review of JPEPA Diplomatic Notes Urged - 30 August 2007
• E-Waste is killing Ghanaians slowly - 27 August 2007
• Environmentalists Applaud Sony Recycling Announcement - 16 August 2007
• Loren, Pia raise eyebrows over Japan deal benefits - 16 August 2007
• Toxic-waste jewellery may be on sale in NZ - 8 August 2007
• Dowa to extract metals from used cell phones - 5 August 2007
• PC busted? Don’t let it go to e-waste - 1 August 2007
• Rebooting Canada’s Approach to E-waste - 31 July 2007
• “Protest Postcard” for Japanese Foreign Minister Refused - 31 July 2007
• Guingona rips JPEPA, calls it one-sided - 16 July 2007
• EU cracks down on shipment of toxic waste - 12 July 2007
• Lead Toxins Take a Global Round Trip - 12 July 2007
• E-waste recycling spews dioxins into the air - 11 July 2007
• Research Identifies U.S. Electronic Waste as Likely Source of Toxic Jewelry Imports from China - 11 July 2007
• Dealers asked to act on growing electronic waste - 9 July 2007
• Export of waste subject to authorisation continues to rise - 9 July 2007
• Nuclear ships: Millions to build, and now millions to trash - 4 July 2007
• PBDEs in Chinese electronics-recycling workers - 3 July 2007
• Government of Chile Urged Not to Dump Warships - 2 July 2007
• Japan may use pact to dump waste: Activists - 2 July 2007
• Study Reveals Ghost Fleet to be Constantly Discharging Toxins - 19 June 2007
• Tech Giants Go Green - 16 June 2007
• Revised deal ends one of fights over ghost fleet - 2 June 2007
• No more ‘ghost fleet’ ships to be sent to England for scrapping - 1 June 2007
• No more ‘ghost fleet’ ships will be sent to Britain for scrapping - 1 June 2007
• Senator Questions Legal Significance of RP-Japan ‘Side Deal’ to JPEPA - 1 June 2007
• British firm loses contract to dismantle nine US ‘ghost ships - 31 May 2007
• Export of Toxic Ghost Ships to UK Ended - 31 May 2007
• Toxic Ghost Fleet Ship Export to UK Stopped - 31 May 2007
• Quicksilver Quandary - 28 May 2007
• BIR Expresses Concern over Shipment Regulations - 24 May 2007
• Asia-Pacific Cautions Against Waste Dumping Through Trade Pacts - 24 May 2007
• Groups Flag 3R Initiative Concerns to ADB - 7 May 2007
• Asian Groups Slam Japan’s Waste Colonialism - 2 May 2007
• Greens react to Steve Job’s Statement on Apple’s Environmental Commitments - 2 May 2007
• Electronic recycling thriving but workers in China, India pay the price - 28 April 2007
• Environment Trumps JPEPA! - 26 April 2007
• Environmental Groups Respond to Apple Board Opposition to Shareholder Proposals – Al Gore a Key Apple Board Member - 18 April 2007
• The toxic trade bonanza - 16 April 2007
• Electronic waste - 4 April 2007
• Japanese Citizen Groups Urge the Japanese Government to Remove Wastes from JTEPA, to Seek National Self-Sufficiency in Waste Management, and to End the Strategy for Export to Developing Countries - 2 April 2007
• Waste land - 31 March 2007
• British Waste Adds to Environmental Crisis across China - 30 March 2007
• Developing countries are awash in e-waste - 30 March 2007
• E-waste Not - 30 March 2007
• Lawmakers push bill to recycle computers - 24 March 2007
• Maine a model of e-waste disposal - 23 March 2007
• Toxic Outsourcing - 21 March 2007
• Federal ship-scrapping program is halted temporarily - 15 March 2007
• Seeking an International Solution to Mountains of E-Waste - 15 March 2007
• Unheard Voices of Alang Workers & their Families - 15 March 2007
• Japan Accused of Breaching Toxic Waste Trade Treaty - 14 March 2007
• E-waste recycling centers are hot spots for POPs - 14 March 2007
• Ghost fleet program grounded - 13 March 2007
• E-waste recycling plan criticised - 12 March 2007
• BAN Statement on StEP Program’s Lack of Transparency and Refusal to Denounce E-Waste Trafficking - 7 March 2007
• E-waste returned to country of origin - 5 March 2007
• HK intercepts 131 tons of e-waste from Japan - 5 March 2007
• Firms starting to stem wave of toxic tech junk - 4 March 2007
• Norms for e-waste disposal yet to be finalised - 4 March 2007
• Tech Firms Go Green As E-Waste Mounts - 3 March 2007
• WWII vessels cleaned in Gulf - 27 February 2007
• Japan “Twisting Arms” of Asian Neighbors to Take Toxic Waste - 22 February 2007
• No tax breaks for toxics urge NGOs - 22 February 2007
• Vista upgrades trigger surge of e-waste - 22 February 2007
• Exporters plead guilty to illegal waste shipment charges - 21 February 2007
• Japan “Twisting Arms” of Asian Neighbors to Take Toxic Waste - 20 February 2007
• No Toxics! In India-Japan Trade Pact - 19 February 2007
• International dumping ground? - 18 February 2007
• Cleaning of ships sparks examination - 17 February 2007
• Free Trade Cannot Include Toxic Waste - 16 February 2007
• Greenpeace condemns Trafigura-Cote d’Ivoire deal as travesty of justice - 14 February 2007
• Ivory Coast toxic clean-up offer - 13 February 2007
• Keep computer’s chemicals from landing in the landfill - 12 February 2007
• Worried about environment, Ore. considers rules on shipbreaking - 11 February 2007
• High-Tech industry contaminating rivers and underground water in Asia and Mexico - 8 February 2007
• ‘A Vistar Story of Microsoft’s Vista’ - 3 February 2007
• Vista-forced upgrades lead to recycling headache – environmental bodies - 1 February 2007
• China customs uncover waste smuggling cases - 31 January 2007
• Lawsuit Focuses Attention on Hazardous Waste Dumping in Africa - 31 January 2007
• Microsoft’s Vista Could Harm Health in Developing Countries - 30 January 2007
• Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment - 30 January 2007
• The grim reality of e-waste burden - 29 January 2007
• The slow boats to China filled with our refuse - 26 January 2007
• China vows to crack down on illegal garbage imports - 24 January 2007
• International Environmental Groups Reject Japanese Waste Colonialism: Calls for Rejection of Japan Economic Partnership Agreements - 18 January 2007
• America’s Slave Labor: Inmates are being forced to work in toxic ‘e-waste’ sweatshops - 17 January 2007
• Toxic ship barred from Chittagong Port - 15 January 2007
• FTA sparks toxic waste dump fears - 10 January 2007
• British lawyers to sue Trafigura over toxic waste - 9 January 2007
• China world’s e-waste dump site - 9 January 2007
• UK class action starts over toxic waste dumped in Africa - 8 January 2007
• Bush Administration Weighs Creation of National Mercury Stockpile - 4 January 2007