BAN, Dell Teaming to Use GPS Trackers to Verify Proper E-Waste Disposition

Basel Action Network is teaming with Dell Technologies to use GPS trackers to verify where Dell e-waste goes after it’s collected through the company’s U.S. consumer takeback programs, said the green group Tuesday. The pilot project with Dell is the start of BAN’s EarthEye commercial tracking services launching officially on Thursday to “all major corporations and institutions,” it said. Dell plans to send 40 hidden trackers into its U.S. takeback logistics chain to “see if things end up where they are supposed to -- in accordance with the law and Dell's strict no-export of e-waste policy,” said BAN.