{"id":23500,"date":"2018-10-16T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2019-06-18T22:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T02:49:02","slug":"samsung-partners-basel-action-network-enhance-e-waste-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/basel-action-network-waste-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Partners with Basel Action Network to Enhance e-Waste Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008, Samsung has been a strong supporter of recycling by providing convenient and responsible takeback options for consumer electronics globally. In a new initiative with our partner \u2013 Basel Action Network (BAN), we are adopting BAN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eartheye.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EarthEye<\/a><sup>TM<\/sup> service \u2013 a global GPS based tracking system for electronic waste.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samsung not only aims to be a leader in product innovation but also in using innovative technologies to keep our supply and disposition chains accountable,&#8221; <strong>said Mark Newton, Samsung&#8217;s Director of Regulatory and Environmental Affairs<\/strong>. &#8220;For this reason, Samsung will add EarthEye<sup>TM<\/sup> as part of our arsenal to maintain the most rigorous due diligence and standards for responsible recycling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"embedded recommended recommended-post\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"embedded-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-badge\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Recommended News<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"recommended-card\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/galaxy-upcycling-program\/\" class=\"recommended-news\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/14123701\/Technology-closeup.png\" alt=\"Galaxy Upcycling Program\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"details-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"post-category\">Corporate<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Galaxy Upcycling Program<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"article-content\">\n\t\t<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Samsung promotes the responsible and convenient recycling of e-waste and supports requirements that would ban the export of unprocessed e-waste to developing countries, consistent with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-stewards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e-Stewards<\/a><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Certification Standard and Samsung policy. Products and parts that cannot be refurbished are processed into raw material commodities, in such a way that material can be used again for production of a variety of new products.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Samsung sustainability practices, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/aboutsamsung\/sustainability\/strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/aboutsamsung\/sustainability\/strategy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the EarthEye<sup>TM<\/sup> global tracking service, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eartheye.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eartheye.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008, Samsung has been a strong supporter of recycling by providing convenient and responsible takeback options for consumer electronics globally. In a new initiative with our partner \u2013 Basel Action Network (BAN), we are adopting BAN&#8217;s EarthEyeTM service \u2013 a global GPS based tracking system for electronic waste. &#8220;Samsung not only aims to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17570],"tags":[50],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-23500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-sustainability","tag-sustainability"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/themes\/samsung-newsroom-2023\/assets\/theme-images\/default-card-mobile.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/themes\/samsung-newsroom-2023\/assets\/theme-images\/default-card.png","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1026,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23500"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=23500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}