International E-Waste Law

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International E-Waste Law

• Global International Agreement The Basel
  Convention.

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Global International Agreement

• The Basel Convention on hazardous wastes (1989)
  is the only pan-global international agreement
  currently affecting electronic waste.
• The stated objective of Basel is To ensure that
  management of hazardous wastes and other wastes
  including their transboundary movement and
  disposal is consistent with the protection of
  human health and the environment whatever the
  place of disposal.

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Who does it affect in the Electronics Industry?

• All producers of waste electronic product,
  globally.
• All recyclers of waste electronics product,
  globally.

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Why does it affect the industry?

• Wastes contained in Annex 1 of the agreement are
  characterized as hazardous under Article 1,
  paragraph 1 (a), of the Convention.

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Why does it affect the industry?

• This includes, for example, Waste electrical and
  electronic assemblies or scrap containing
  components such as accumulators and other
  batteries included on list A, mercury-switches,
  glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated
  glass and PCB-capacitors, or contaminated with
  Annex I constituents (e.g., cadmium, mercury,
  lead, polychlorinated biphenyl).

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How does it affect the industry?

• The convention places an obligation on the
  ratifying countries to
• Ensure that the generation of hazardous wastes
  and other wastes within it is reduced to a
  minimum.

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How does it affect the industry?

• Ensure the availability of adequate disposal
  facilities, for the environmentally sound
  management of hazardous wastes and other wastes,
  that shall be located, to the extent possible,
  within it, whatever the place of their disposal.

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How does it affect the industry?

• Ensure that persons involved in the management of
  hazardous wastes or other wastes within it take
  such steps as are necessary to prevent pollution
  due to hazardous wastes and other wastes arising
  from such management and, if such pollution
  occurs, to minimize the consequences thereof for
  human health and the environment.

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How does it affect the industry?

• Ensure that the transboundary movement of
  hazardous wastes and other wastes is reduced to
  the minimum consistent with the environmentally
  sound and efficient management of such wastes,
  and is conducted in a manner which will protect
  human health and the environment against the
  adverse effects which may result from such
  movement.

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Which countries are signed up?

• 158 Countries across the world.
• 37 African Countries
• 41 Countries in Asia-Pacific
• 27 Western European Countries
• 22 In Central and Eastern European
• 30 In Latin-America and the Caribbean

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How TES-AMM Can help.

• We are fully conversant with Basel and operate
  wholly within the convention.
• We take care of all necessary work to fulfill the
  requirements of Basel.
• We provide a full one-stop recycling solution for
  all waste.

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How TES-AMM Can help.

• We arrange all the logistics.
• We provide full documentation, as proof of
  recycling within the Basel framework.

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Contact us

• TES-AMM (Europe) Ltd
• 3 Drummond Crescent
• Riverside Business Park
• Irvine
• Ayrshire
• KA11 5AN
• Tel - 44 (0)1294 277760
• Fax - 44(0)1294 277764
• E-Mail info_at_tes-amm.co.uk