Market and E-waste News
Government Street Market on Sunday, May 2 had a surprising number of customers in spite of the cold, wind and rain. Recycle2shop introduced a new product to the market stall - an eco bag made of recycled blue jeans (greenjeans) and recycled upholstery fabrics, the bag is lined with recycled shirt material (cotton). The bag has 4 pockets on the outside and 2 pockets inside; the bag has a zip closure.
Latest Recycling News:
BAN (Basel Action Network), reports Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine, launched a “global e-waste recycler certification” in order to regulate and prevent toxic waste dumping in Asia and Africa. 
“At the heart of the program is the e-Stewards Standard, created by BAN with the advice of industry leaders and health and environmental specialists. It calls for recyclers to eliminate exports of hazardous e-wastes to developing countries, to halt the dumping of such wastes in municipal landfills or incinerators, and to cease the use of captive prison populations to manage toxic e-wastes.
The program also calls for strict protection of customer’s private data and occupational health safeguards to ensure that workers in recycling plants are not exposed to toxic dusts and fumes.
Currently, there are about 50 e-Stewards Recyclers, each of which has passed a rigorous internal review by BAN as a preliminary step to full certification. All are regarded as responsible recyclers, and each has committed to becoming fully certified by September 2011.” Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine May 3.2010
Green Peace and The Sierra Club are endorsing BAN’s program.