I/We pledge:
1. To manage our e-waste in a manner that protects and safeguards all forms of life;
2. To educate young people about the global problem of e-waste, and to support their efforts to develop solutions;
3. To handle, dismantle, and recycle our e-waste in accordance with the highest international
standards and the relevant United Nations conventions, even when these
standards exceed the requirements of our local, state, and federal laws;
4. To stop our e-waste from being dumped or deposited into solid waste landfills;
5. To prevent our e-waste from being incinerated;
6. To prohibit our e-waste from being exported to developing countries;
7. To ensure that no child labor or prison labor is ever employed to process our e-waste;
8. To transport our e-waste ethically, safely, and in compliance with local, state and federal laws;
9. To employ only
electronics recyclers who are signatories to
Basel Action Network’s Electronic Recycler’s Pledge of True Stewardship;
10. To encourage educational institutions, corporations and government to create curricula, programs, and incentives designed to promote the growth of “
Green Chemistry:” the creation of new molecules that do not harm life;
11. To create less electronic waste ("e-waste") by limiting our electronics
purchases, and by using our electronics until they
stop working;
12. To convince manufacturers to build electronics that are made of
materials that do not harm any form of life, and that are designed to
be easily broken down and completely re-used at the end of their
lifecycles;
13. To patronize those manufacturers who agree “take back” their electronics at the end of their lifecycles in order to ethically recycle them;
14. To ask local, state and federal governments to pass e-waste legislation requiring that every manufacturer, handler, transporter, and recycler of used electronics meet the highest ethical standards;
15. To employ, if necessary, independent audits or other mechanisms to verify that our electronics are manfactured and recycled in accordance with these ethical principles, and,
16. To share our knowledge about the challenge of e-waste with our families, friends, classmates, colleagues, neighbors, customers, suppliers, employers, and elected representatives.