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All e-Stewards Face- 2-Face Meeting

All e-Stewards Face- 2-Face Meeting. New Orleans, LA Sept 28, 2010. Program Overview. Tipping Point – 15 minutes -- Jim e-Stewards recognition – 10 minutes – Lauren and Jim Program governance – 10 minutes -- Sarah Certification update – 15 minutes -- Greg

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All e-Stewards Face- 2-Face Meeting

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  1. All e-Stewards Face-2-Face Meeting New Orleans, LA Sept 28, 2010

  2. Program Overview • Tipping Point – 15 minutes -- Jim • e-Stewards recognition – 10 minutes – Lauren and Jim • Program governance – 10 minutes -- Sarah • Certification update – 15 minutes -- Greg • e-Stewards training opportunities – 5 minutes -- Libby • Political/Campaigns – 15 minutes -- Jim • e-Stewards marketing – 15 minutes – Mike and Lauren • e-Stewards collectors program– 5 minutes -- Lauren • e-Stewards collaboration – 20 minutes – e-Stewards

  3. Who’s sitting next to YOU? • Certified e-Stewards Recyclers • Qualified Pledged e-Stewards Recyclers • e-Recyclers contracted with CBs – Certification underway • e-Stewards Leadership Council members • Certifying Body representatives **Introductions** Name, Title, Company & Location

  4. Tipping Point-- Jim

  5. A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana Photographs by Pieter Hugo NY Times Magazine In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad to get at the precious metals inside. baselaction network

  6. Naasra Yeti, 11 years old, one of the scavengers in the Agbogbloshie Market. Women and girls often carry bowls of water in plastic bags to put out fires.

  7. Computer monitors sometimes double as chairs at the Agbogbloshie dump.

  8. A make-shift shack where scavengers rest.

  9. Mami Al Hassan, 11.

  10. A scavenger stops work for a meal.

  11. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989 and now adopted by a majority of nations, was meant to stop the dumping of toxic waste in poor countries.

  12. Livestock among the ruins.

  13. In 2008, Greenpeace sampled the burned soil at Agbogbloshie and found high levels of lead, cadmium, antimony, PCBs and chlorinated dioxins.

  14. AbdulaiYahaya, 14. Many boys are sent to mine the dumps by families from the north.

  15. The nightmare continues but…

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