Developments in the Basel Convention:

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• Developments in the Basel Convention
• Basel Mobile Phone Initiative
• John Bullock
• International Precious Metals Institute
• www.ipmi.org
• ISEE 2004 Electronics Recycling Summit
• 12 May 2004

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Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative

• Initiated October 2002
• Ten Manufacturers of Mobile Phones
• LG Matsushita Panasonic
• Mitsubishi Motorola
• NEC Europe Nokia
• Philips Samsung
• Siemens Sony Ericsson

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MPPI Sustainable Partnership

• Declare our intention to
• Contribute towards meeting the goals and
  objectives of the Basel Convention
• Promote the sound management of end-of-life
  mobile phones
• Take all reasonable steps for ensuring
  responsible design and manufacturing and
  contribute towards products stewardship
• Participate in working group(s)

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Mobile Phone Working Group

• Countries and Manufacturers
• Chairman Switzerland
• Staff Basel Secretariat
• Meetings Geneva
• First Meeting April 2003
• Second Meeting February 2004

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MPPI Work Program

• Project 1. Reuse of used mobile phones
• Project 2. Collection and transboundary movement
  of used mobile phones
• Project 3. Recovery and Recycling of end-of-life
  mobile phones
• Project 4. Awareness raising and training

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MPPI Work Program

• Project 4. Awareness raising and training
• Design and use
• Collection
• Re-use
• Recycling

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MPPI Design Recommendations

• Eliminate waste caused by unnecessary
  transmission technology incompatibility.
• Eliminate waste caused by hardware
  incompatibility.
• Life cycle energy use should be further reduced.
• Mobile phones should be better designed for reuse
  and recycling.
• Reduce or Eliminate Toxic Substances.
• Adopt Life Cycle Thinking.

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MPPI Design Recommendations

• Guidance Environmentally Sound Management of
  End-of-Life Mobile Phones
• www.basel.int
• open for comment 21 May 2004
• Milton Catelin
• milton.catelin_at_unep.ch

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Computer Partnership Initiative

• e2e Global Partnership on Computing and the
  Environment
• further reduce the adverse environmental
  impacts of the computing industry

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Computer Partnership Initiative

• Preparatory Meeting 4 June 2004 New York
• leading global computing companies
• Basel Convention
• UN Global Compact
• NGOs
• UN agencies
• and others
• milton.catelin_at_unep.ch - before - 17 May 2004.

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Q A

• John Bullock
• New Haven, CT, USA
• mail_at_johnbullock.com
• International Precious Metals Institute
• www.ipmi.org