Materials Processing Corporation Signs On to Basel Action Network; Vows to Educate Businesses About Problems Facing Third World Waste Dumping
Minneapolis, Min., October 28, 2008 – Materials Processing Corporation (MPC), one of the country’s fastest growing electronics recycling specialists today took their fight against toxic eWaste to the next, global, level by joining the Basel Action Network (BAN). The move follows the company’s nationwide effort in 2007 to help other electronics recyclers raise environmental standards across the industry.
“The electronics recycling industry has come a long way in the last few years,” says Todd Schachtman, President Global Business Development, Materials Processing Corporation. “Like MPC there are a few companies who place an extremely high value on both quality and environmental standards, but unfortunately there is still work to be done educating smaller, older recyclers to improve their environmental operations.”
Materials Processing Corporation, which runs a one hundred percent no landfill facility in Eagan, Minnesota, and processes all waste on site, will become a leading member of BAN’s E-Waste Stewardship Project. The project, a consortium of like-minded electronics recyclers and manufacturers, is dedicated to providing education about, and eradicating, the export of electronic waste to poor or developing countries. It’s ultimate goal is to eradicate the transportation and export of toxic electronic waste to third world, poor or developing countries and to ensure the practice is replaced with manufacturer responsibility and both green designs and legislation.
“MPC signing the BAN pledge today is an example of the level of environmental stewardship we expect from our partners,” says Daniel Kim, General Manager of Environmental Compliance, LG Electronics USA, Inc., a partner of MPC. “That level of commitment is central to our policy at LG and we believe ultimately it will benefit the earth’s environment.”
“We’re thrilled to be working with MPC,” says Yuka Takamiya, Basel Action Network. “They have both an excellent and irrefutable reputation for environmental stewardship as well as a real passion and commitment to helping others in the industry improve their operational and environmental protocols as much as they can. They’re a true leader.”
Schachtman adds that Materials Processing Corporation is not trying to dictate how any company should run their business. “We’re just offering our expertise to anyone looking for assistance or knowledge about how to run a one hundred percent clean ecycling operation. This isn’t about MPC, it’s about the global environment and the future,” he says.
For more information about eCycling and MPC visit www.mpc-e.com
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About Materials Processing Corporation, MPC (www.mpc-e.com)Materials Processing Corporation (MPC) is the country’s leading electronics recycling specialist with nationwide operations, collections and capabilities. Certified to the highest international, government and environmental standards MPC is one of the very few electronics recycling specialists in the United States to have ISO 9001 and ISO14001 certification. Headquartered in Eagan, MN, for more than 25 years, the company operates a strict no landfill policy and has facilities and processing capabilities in Minnesota, California, Maryland, Tennessee, Illinois, Florida, Ohio and Colorado.
About BAN (www.ban.org)BAN is the world's only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. Working at the nexus of human rights and environment, BAN confronts the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world's toxic waste and pollution on the global village's poorest residents. At the same time BAN actively promotes the sustainable and just solutions to our consumption and waste crises -- banning waste trade, while promoting green, toxic free and democratic design of consumer products.BAN is a primary, demonstrable program of Earth Economics based in Seattle, Washington, a registered
501(c)3 charitable organization of the United States.
About the E-Waste Stewardship ProjectProgram to ensure that exports of hazardous electronic waste (Particularly from the USA) to developing countries, exposed by BAN, are eliminated and replaced with producer responsibility and green design programs/legislation