TUE
Jan 14th
2014

• e-Stewards Launches Search for Executive Director
• Major Media Provides BAN Support in Intercon Suit
• New Members of Leadership Council Announced
• Audits to Version 2.0
• Press Release Policy Change
• BAN Releases 2012 Annual Report
• What's New

As the Spin-out of the e-Stewards Program moves forward, the time has arrived to actively search for its permanent Executive Director. Bob Houghton is currently acting as the e-Stewards Interim ED, but his commitment will be coming to a close in the first half of 2014. Bob and Jim will be hiring the new executive with input from Leadership Council, BAN Board and Staff.

The full position description is being posted through LinkedIn and other channels. For more information or to provide us with leads to interesting candidates please contact: inform@ban.org

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The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Public Broadcasting System, CNN, Bloomberg and Dow Jones are among the major media organizations that have leant their support to BAN in an Amicus Brief defending the exercise of responsible free speech in BAN’s defense in the defamation suit brought by Intercon Solutions. BAN rejected Intercon’s application to become e-Stewards certified after they were demonstrated to have exported hazardous electronic waste to China.

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After a three month, deliberative nomination and election process in the last quarter of 2013, the Leadership Council made their final recommendations to Basel Action Network to fill the vacant seats on the Leadership Council. The Leadership Council recommendations were accepted, and we are pleased to announce and welcome the two newest members of the Leadership Council for 2014:

• Cindy Coutts, President, SIMS Recycling Solutions, Canada
• Corey Harnish, Vice-President Operations, LifeSpan Recycling

We also welcome Melanie Robinson, Director of Marketing at CloudBlue, as she steps in for Todd Zegers, CloudBlue’s VP of Development.

It is with sincere graditude that we thank Todd Zegers, VP of Development at CloudBlue, Joel Urano, CEO of Capstone Wireless and Mick Schum, former CEO of Hugo Neu Recycling, (formerly WeRecycle!) for serving their terms of service on the LC. We appreciate their high level of professionalism, dedication, contributions and years of commitment, as they held seats on the first e-Stewards Leadership Council.

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As most of you know, all audits occurring after May 1, 2014 should be to the new version 2.0 of the e-Stewards Standard. In the next months your auditors will be retrained to V 2.0 by our formal training organization, SAI Global Assurances Services. These required retraining courses will occur in February, and early March.

Further, to the requirement above, all certified e-Stewards recyclers have until 18 months after the publication of Version 2.0 to become certified to the new version, which means by May 1, 2015. After that date, Version 1.0 of the standard sunsets. It is important to transition your environmental health & safety management system over to the new standard well in advance of that 2015 deadline, so that you have training, records, and documentation in place, and you have also completed your own internal review in conformity to Version 2.0 prior to your on-site audit by that time.

We have made every effort to provide you with adequate time and support for a smooth evolution to conformity with Version 2.0. We are convinced that the work needed to upgrade your systems will be rewarded with a more efficient system that will save money in the long term, allow you to live and boast the most robust environmental standard in the field.

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Now that we are entering our 4th year of the program, we will be phasing out the standard use of press releases as the way to announce new recyclers into the e-Stewards program. The e-Stewards program will be offering other less traditional ways to get the word out. We will be exploring and offering shareable content, such as blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn, infographics, videos and much more. Should you wish to do your own press release we will of course provide quotes from BAN/e-Stewards and other assistance.

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The Basel Action Network’s 2012 annual report is now available. We are quite proud of it -- take a look.

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• Latest e-Stewards Certifications
  • Computer Recycling LLC, Kansas City, MO
  • eCycle Secure, Charlotte, NC
  • ERS International, Ontario, Canada
  • GEEP International Inc., Grand Prairie, TX & Redford, MI
  • Hesstech, LLC, Edison, NJ
  • Metalwave, Inc., Amesbury, MA
  • SMS Systems Maintenance Services, Inc., Charlotte, NC
  • US Micro, LLC, Atlanta, GA & Las Vegas, NV


• New e-Stewards Enterprises
  • Seattle Mariners
  • Raytheon
  • Aflac Insurance
  • Armstrong Worldwide Industries
  • Warpspeed Communications

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