‘The Basel Action Network (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, they confront the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world’s toxic waste and pollution on our global village’s poorest residents. At the same time they actively promote 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.’
In July of 2008 we went through the BAN’s audit process and took the pledge to become e-stewards. For more information on the BAN and our crusade for environmental stewardship, go to www.ban.org and www.e-stewards.org
ISO 14001 is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through dedicated technical committees representing approximately 150 countries around the world. Its purpose is to enable an organization of any type or size to develop and implement a policy committing it to prevention of pollution, compliance with legal and other requirements, and continual improvement.
The realization of this commitment will be a management system that recognizes and manages the primary environmental issues through awareness and assessment of applicable legal requirements, objectives for improvement, assignment of responsibilities, competent personnel, communications, procedures, controls and monitoring, emergency response capability, self correction and assessment, and internal reviews. These processes are to be based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
- Reduced raw material/resource use
- Reduced energy consumption
- Improved process efficiency
- Reduced waste generation and disposal costs
- Utilization of recoverable resources
“As a leader in protecting the environment, the management system of California Electronic Asset Recovery has been registered to ISO 14001 as of March 2010”
- Doug Testorff, Director of Environmental Compliance & Administration
CEAR is also a proud member of the following organizations:
National Association of Information Destruction
Sacramento Regional Solid Waste Authority
California Refuse Recycling Council
