US Navy Abandons Plans to Sink Old Aircraft Carriers

The Basel Action Network, a global toxic trade watchdog organisation, has claimed victory as the US Navy confirms it has changed its decision to scuttle the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, choosing instead to have the ship recycled in the US. This change follows the December 2010 release of BAN’s report ’Jobs and Dollars Overboard: The … Read more

Responsible E-Waste Recycling Comes to Europe

The Basel Action Network (BAN), the global environmental waste watchdog group which first exposed the dumping of waste from electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) from developed countries to China and West Africa, has brought its electronic recyclers certification to Europe. Redemtech EU, of Cranleigh, Surrey, has become the first electronics recycler outside of the United … Read more