With more and more new technology entering the marketplace every day, there has been a corresponding increase in used and end of life electronic products. Until recently, there had been very little data collected on the global market for used electronic products. In the meantime, a debate has evolved as to what constitutes e-scrap, what is happening to exported used electronic products once they reach their destination, and what role the United States should play in the global used electronics market.

In this 90-minute webinar, Robin Wiener, president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and Jim Puckett, the executive director of Basel Action Network, will:

• Review recent studies in trends regarding the trade of used electronic products
• Analyze what this new information means for recycling and the recycling industry
• Describe the role of current domestic and international laws and certification standards

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Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network (BAN) and Robin Wiener, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI)

Jim Puckett has been an environmental health and justice activist for more than 25 years. He currently is the executive director of the Basel Action Network (BAN), which he helped found in 1997. He has represented civil society within the Basel Convention since its inception in 1989 and has traveled extensively researching, writing, producing films and campaigning against all forms of toxic trade. Since 2001, Jim has been in the center of the e-waste issue, having travelled extensively documenting the global dumping of electronic wastes in developing countries. Jim Puckett and BAN's work has been featured in numerous media outlets including CBS's 60 Minutes, ABC's 20/20, PBS's Frontline, NPR's Fresh Air, National Geographic, and the New York Times. Jim also helped create the e-Stewards Certification and e-Stewards Enterprise programs, which are integrated market solutions for sustainable electronic waste management. Prior to his work with BAN, Jim served as Greenpeace International’s Toxics Director and before that, as co-coordinator of Greenpeace’s Toxic Trade campaign, both posts based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Greenpeace Toxic Trade Campaign was instrumental in achieving the Basel Ban as well as numerous regional waste trade bans.


Robin Wiener is president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), a trade association representing more 1,700 private, for-profit companies throughout the United States and in more than 35 countries worldwide that process, broker, and industrially consume scrap commodities, including metals, paper, plastic, glass, textiles, rubber, and electronics. ISRI provides advocacy, education, and compliance training, and promotes public awareness of the vital role the $100 billion U.S. based recycling industry plays in the U.S. economy, global trade, the environment and sustainable development. Robin also is a director of the International Environment Council of the Bureau of International Recycling in Brussels, a member of the Board of Directors of The Copper Club, a member of the board of R2 Solutions, and a past chair of the NAM Council of Manufacturing Associations. She currently serves as an industry advisor on the Department of Commerce International Trade Advisory Committee on Steel, and a board member of the Department of Justice’s National Motor Vehicle Title Information System Advisory Committee.