BAN responds to ISRI survey results

摘要

The Basel Action Network has issued a strong response to comments made by Eric Harris, director of government and international affairs for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, at the recently concluded E-Scrap Conference. Harris was presenting findings of an ISRI-sponsored survey of the electronics recycling industry conducted by the research firm International Data Corp. Specifically, BAN objects to Harris' assertion that the majority of electronic scrap is processed in the United States. "Any voluntary survey asking the respondents to report shameful or illegal activity will not produce reliable data and the export of hazardous electronic waste to developing countries is both shameful and illegal. The respondents will under-report exporting," says BAN's e-Stewards enterprise program manager Mike Enberg.