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The CBS News Program 60 Minutes recently aired a story on the
underground dumping of CRT monitor and televisions from the United States being shipped to Hong Kong
and China.
60 Minutes followed the shipping container of a Colorado-based electronics recycling company that claims
it practices proper recycling and does not dump its waste overseas. The container was
shipped to Tacoma, WA where it was
loaded on a ship and sent to Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong. At the harbor in Hong Kong, it was stopped and returned
to the recycling company for containing CRT Monitors.
The owner of the company, Brandon Richter of Executive Recycling claims that
though the container was shipped under their name, it was not filed with glass CRT monitors at his facility.
That claim appears a little dubious as his company was also caught in a Government Accountability Office sting
attemtpting to sell waste CRT monitors and televisions to a fictitious broker in
Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, Executive Recycling was not alone. 42 other American companies
attempted to sell CRT waste to the fictitious broker.
Click here to see the video of this story and learn what illegal dumping has done to the
town of Guiyu in China, a town that has the highest dioxin levels on earth.
Because of the rampant fraudulent claims of unscrupulous recyclers, the Basel Action
Network has teamed with leading ethical recyclers to promote the e-Stewards Intitiative.
The e-Stewards Initiative will become the first independently audited and accredited electronic
waste recycler certification program forbidding the dumping of toxic e-waste in developing countries,
local landfills and incinerators; the use of prison labor; and the unauthorized release of private data.
Hesstech is proud to be an e-Steward Founders and will be one of the first
companies to be certified as such.
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