An international drive has been launched to tackle rising volumes of electronics waste. The Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) initiative, hosted by the United Nations University, includes members from industry, academia, governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It promotes standardisation of electroscrap (e-scrap) recycling to recover valuable and potentially toxic chemicals. Not everyone is happy with StEP. Basel Action Network (BAN) has already accused StEP of ‘appearing to advocate illegal export of hazardous e-waste’. The NGO has also criticised the ‘hardly open’ membership programme which seems designed to ‘lock out’ interested parties.
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