What is a Basel Certificate?
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on hazardous and other wastes. The Convention has 172 Parties and aims to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects resulting from the generation, management, transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous and other wastes.
Companies with a Basel Certificate are ship to other Parties who are a part of the Basel Convention. Parties that are dedicated to disposing of waste in an environment friendly and non-hazardous way.
New Zealand does not have the capabitlity to dispose of certain waste products, so it is shipped of overseas instead.
When disposing of your eWaste, make sure the company has a Basel Certificate in order to ensure that the waste is being disposed of in a safe way, and not just becoming another country's problem.
For more information on the Basel Convention, visit their website.
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