Basel Action Network

Many of the toxins entering the US via imported consumer products are directly linked to the trade and 'dirty' recycling of e-waste in developing countries. The Basel Action Network (BAN) is leading the effort against this unsustainable, and unjust, cycle of waste and consumption.

BAN works to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis. BAN works in opposition to toxic trade in toxic wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies, that are exported from rich to poorer countries. Alternatively, we work to ensure national self-sufficiency in waste management through clean production and toxics use reductions and in support of the principle of global environmental justice -- where no peoples or environments are disproportionately poisoned and polluted due to the dictates of unbridled market forces and trade.

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