History
A 40-Year Timeline of the Development of the Global Electronics Health and Justice Movement
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2016
SHARPS sit-in and Occupy Samsung movement reaches 1 year milestone
Organization(s): SHARPS
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A Year into Sit-in, SHARPS to Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong: Dialogue or Resign
Chemical Challenge Gap Analysis
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, GoodElectronics, etc.
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Report published: “The Poisonous Pearl”
Organization(s): SOMO, LAC – Labour Action China, LESN
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South Korean Press Glosses Over Report on Samsung Cluster Victims
Organization(s): UN Special Rapporteur Tuncak
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UN Special Rapporteur Tuncak: S. Korean Press Glosses Over Report on Samsung Cluster Victims
S. Korea’s Supreme Court Denies Workers Compensation Claims for Three Samsung Cluster Victims
Organization(s): South Korean Supreme Court
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S. Korea’s Supreme Court Denies Workers Compensation Claims for Three Samsung Cluster Victims
CLEAN ELECTRONICS PRODUCTION Network is launched with a goal to move towards zero exposure of workers to toxic chemicals in the electronics manufacturing process
Organization(s): Green America, etc.
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Petition to Samsung to pay compensation to workers who have died from toxic exposure
Organization(s): Sum of Us
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Samsung: Pay compensation for the workers who died in your factories
ITUC launches petition campaign to end worker abuse and abolish its no union policy
Organization(s): International Trade Union Congress
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The truth matters – medieval conditions behind modern technology
In an unprecedented ruling, Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) cited malignant lymphoma as an occupational disease and granted workers compensation to Park Hyo-soon, a former Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. employee who died of the blood disorder
Organization(s): SHARPS, KCOMWEL, etc.
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A Milestone Victory: S. Korean Gov’t Declares Malignant Lymphoma Occupational Disease
Responsible Mining: Conflict minerals, cobalt, tin, gold, etc.
Organization(s): SOMO, Action Against Impunity for Human Rights, PremiCongo, AFREWATCH -African Resources Watch
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Responsible Mining: Conflict Minerals
Release of “Death by Design” movie
Organization(s): Ambrica Productions and Death by Design production team
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Sponsors panel at national conference on “How Purchasers Can Support the Toxic Chemical Challenge to the Global Electronics Industry”
Organization(s): Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
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How Purchasers Can Support the Toxic Chemical Challenge to the Global Electronics Industry
Samsung launched an Ombudsman Committee on Leukemia, an external monitoring structure agreed to by SHARPS
Organization(s): SHARPS, Samsung
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2015
Report: Brazil, the new manufacturing hotspot for electronics?
Organization(s): SOMO, GoodElectronics, Réporter Brasil
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Electronics Watch launches new initiative to organize public sector buyers and gives them the essential tools to create effective market demand for decent working conditions in their ICT hardware supply chains
Organization(s): Electronics Watch and partners
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SHARPS Begins Occupy Samsung movement with Sit-in As Samsung Walks Out Of Arbitration Talks
Organization(s): SHARPS
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SHARPS Begins Sit-in As Samsung Walks Out Of Arbitration Talks
IndustriALL Global Union World Conference on ICT, Electrical and Electronics in Malaysia – Conference endorses Challenge to the electronics industry
Organization(s): IndustriALL, etc.
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Meeting the challenge: Detailed recommendations for the electronics industry regarding the use of chemicals
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Good Electronics, etc.
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Samsung announced that it would provide $85.8 million in compensation for seven groups of diseases: five types of hematopoietic cancers (leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, aplastic anemia, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplasia) and two types of cancer that have been approved as work-related (brain tumor and breast cancer) (but this would only cover a fraction of SHARPS victims)
Organization(s): Samsung, SHARPS
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Barely 3 out of 10 victims qualify for Samsung’s compensation plan standards
Samsung Electronics to create fund for cancer-stricken workers, safety
A Challenge to the Global Electronics Industry to Adopt Safer and More Sustainable Products and Practices, and Eliminate Hazardous Chemicals, Exposures and Discharges
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Good Electronics, etc.
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Report: “Paying the price for flexibility – workers’ experiences in the electronics industry in Mexico”
Organization(s): CEREAL
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Important legal victory as the Taipei District Court rules in favor of workers in the decade-long legal battle in the worst industrial disaster in Taiwan’s history.
Organization(s): RCA self help association, Taiwan court
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Publication of: “Katanga calling: Congolese cobalt and consumer electronics”
Organization(s): Friends of the Earth Netherlands, SOMO, and The Good Electronics Network
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2014
ILO report: Tackling informality in e-waste management – The potential of cooperative enterprises
Organization(s): International Labor Organization
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Tackling informality in e-waste management: The potential of cooperative enterprises
Greenpeace publishes ‘Designing the Future: The path to greener electronics”
Organization(s): Greenpeace International
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FORCED LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC GOODS IN MALAYSIA: A Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics
Organization(s): Verite, US Department of Labor
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Baskut Tuncak appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
Organization(s): UN Human Rights Council
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Challenging the chip published in Chinese
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, etc.
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Launch of “Bad Apple” campaign to end smartphone sweatshops
Organization(s): Green America, etc.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. vice chairman and CEO Kwon Oh-hyun made a public apology to the victims of the company’s leukemia cluster
Organization(s): SHARPS
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SHARPS Cautiously Welcomes Samsung’s Apology
Samsung promises to compensate factory workers who suffered cancer
2013
Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council launched
Organization(s): Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
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Imaging Equipment and Television categories are listed on the EPEAT registry
Organization(s): Green Electronics Council, IEEE
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Resolution in support of the SAICM recommendations on the hazards in electronics adopted by members of ANROEV May 2013 in Bangkok
Organization(s): ANROEV, SHARPS, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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Electronics workshop at the ANROEV conference in Bangkok, Thailand
Organization(s): ANROEV, ICRT, SHARPS, Hesperian Health Guides, etc.
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Imaging Equipment and Television categories are listed on the EPEAT registry
Organization(s): Green Electronics Council, IEEE
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H.R. 2791, “The Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (RERA) of 2013,” is filed, with the promise of stimulating the US recycling industry banning e-waste dumping by American firms overseas
Organization(s): Electronics TakeBack Coalition and multi-stakeholder coalition
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Responsible Electronics Recycling Act, to ban overseas dumping of US ewaste, introduced in Congress
1st Electronic Sector Roundtable in India. 30th November 2012. Chennai
Organization(s): CIVIDEP – Civil initiatives for development and peace
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1st Electronic Sector Roundtable in India.30th November 2012. Chennai
Migrant labour rights in Malaysia’s electronics industry
Organization(s): SOMO, Make IT Fair
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Outsourcing Labour: Migrant labour rights in Malaysia’s electronics industry
2012
Launch of new generation TCO Certified – the sustainability certification for IT product
Organization(s): TCO Development
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Resolution on Improving Occupational and Environmental Health in the Global Electronics Industry and panel of experts to describe and assess the impacts on high-tech manufacturing on the workers in the supply chain
Organization(s): American Public Health Association
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Sustainable Electronics Forum brought together leaders in electronics design, materials, manufacturing and recycling, to develop a shared vision and technology roadmap for sustainable electronics. They produced recommendations for research, standards and design challenges; and accelerate green electronic voluntary initiatives
Organization(s): United States Environmental Protection Agency, Green Electronics Council, Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, electronics industry, government and NGO leaders
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Sustainable Mobile Phone Design Charrette where participants explored opportunities for increasing the sustainability of mobile phones – from design, manufacture, use and
disposal
Organization(s): University of Massachusetts, Lowell, California College of the Arts, Electronics TakeBack Coalition, Sustainable Silicon Valley
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FLA report shows some policy changes at Foxconn but few improvements for workers
Organization(s): Fair Labor Association
Workers’ rights in the global electronics sector: Report of Round Table
Organization(s): Make IT Fair, Good Electronics
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Designing Take back Systems for E-Waste
Toxics Link Concept Paper. Toxics Link Workshop
Organization(s): Toxics Link
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Global strategy meeting on sustainable electronics in Korea
Organization(s): SHARPS, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, AMRC, ANROEV, Center for the Environment, Taiwan (CET), GoodElectronics, etc.
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Report from the Global Strategy Meeting on Sustainable Electronics Industry
International Activists Hold Networking Meeting In Seoul For a Sustainable Electronic Industry
Publication of “Freedom of Association in the electronics industry”
Organization(s): SOMO
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Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor announced its recognition of the aplastic anemia suffered by Ms. Jisook Kim as an occupational disease from her work at Samsung Semiconductor
Organization(s): Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor, SHARPS
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Significant Momentum Toward Sustainable Electronics in 2012
Organization(s): ICRT, ANROEV, and more
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The Struggle in Asia for Sustainable Electronics and Safer Workplaces, and ICRT’s 10th Anniversary
Organization(s): ICRT, IPEN, and more
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The Struggle in Asia for Sustainable Electronics and Safer Workplaces, and ICRT’s 10th Anniversary
2011
GoodElectronics Common Demands on the electronics industry – revised 2011
Organization(s): Good Electronics and allied groups
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GoodElectronics Common Demands on the electronics industry – revised 2011
International Workshop on Hazardous Substances within the Life Cycle of Electrical and Electronic Products, organized under the auspices of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) in Vienna, Austria
Organization(s): IPEN, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, AMRC, SHARPS, BAN, Toxics Link, Clean Production Action, etc.
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Electronics Workshop – Strategy planning and strengthening of work in Asia ANROEV conference in Jaippur, India
Organization(s): ANROEV, AMRC, SHARPS, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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New report by Chinese NGOs accuses iPhone maker Apple of failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and safety standards, and dozens of poisoned factory workers
Organization(s): Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Green Choice Alliance
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2010
Electronics H&S workshop in Batam, Indonesia
Organization(s): FSPMI, AMRC, ICRT
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Electronics H&S training at ANROEV meeting in Bandung, Indonesia
Organization(s): ANROEV, AMRC, SHARPS, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, LOHP, etc.
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Annual Conference 2010, Bandung, Indonesia – Short Report
LOHP Staff Participate in Conference to Set Asian OHS Agenda
Petition campaign to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, telling Jobs to stop exploiting Chinese workers and prevent suicides at Foxconn
Organization(s): United Students against sweatshop and Students and scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM)
On-line petition launched to support Samsung workers and the SHARPS campaign
Organization(s): SHARPS, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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Online Petition for health and justice of Samsung electronics workers
New film explores the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—e-waste, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill
Organization(s): The Story of Stuff Project and the Electronics Take Back Coalition, Hesperian Foundation
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Seven people were arrested while protesting against Samsung’s disregard for the death of Ji-Yeon Park, a former Samsung worker
Organization(s): SHARPS
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Greenpeace climbers scale the Benelux headquarters of the Korean electronic giant Samsung, displaying the message “Samsung = Broken Promises”
Organization(s): Greenpeace
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Workers at Suzhou factory poisoned with N-hexane and hold protest
Organization(s): Procure IT Fair
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2009
Round Table for the Electronics Industry and Civil Society Organisations in Amsterdam, Netherlands – Improving Labour Standards in the Global Electronics Industry Defining Strategies that Work
Organization(s): Good Electronics and allied groups
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Round Table for the Electronics Industry and Civil Society Organisations
Requirements for socially responsible manufacturing introduced
Organization(s): TCO Development
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Publication of “Buy IT Fair – Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers”
Organization(s): Procure IT Fair
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Buy IT Fair – Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers
Greenpeace action at H-P global headquarters – ‘HP = Hazardous Products’ was painted on the roof in large yellow letters and automated phone calls from actor William Shatner, calling upon the company to phase out the toxic chemicals
Organization(s): Greenpeace International
ANROEV global meeting in Cambodia, with presentation by SHARPS about Samsung workers in Korea and OSH training on electronics H&S
Organization(s): ANROEV, AMRC, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, SHARPS etc.
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A Comprehensive Approach to Congo’s Conflict Minerals – Strategy Paper
Organization(s): Enough Project, Grassroots Reconciliation Group
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A Comprehensive Approach to Congo’s Conflict Minerals – Strategy Paper
Publication of “The Dark side of cyberspace: Inside the sweatshops of China’s Computer Hardware Production”
Organization(s): Weed (World Economy, Ecology & Development), Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), Procure IT Fair
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The dark side of cyberspace: Inside the sweatshops of China’s Computer Hardware Production
Challenging the Chip published in Korean
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, SHARPS, etc.
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2008
Good Electronics formed and publishes newsletter
Organization(s): Good Electronics and allied groups
Publishes report “ Toxic tech: Not in our backyard”
Organization(s): Greenpeace
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Electronics Skill share for ANROEV members and electronics workers from the Philippines
Organization(s): ANROEV, IOHSAD, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
2007
The U.S. government issues an executive order requiring that all federal agencies satisfy 95% of their purchase requirements with EPEAT-registered products
Organization(s): Green Electronics Council, IEEE
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“Toxics free UC Campaign” persuades University of California to adopt green electronics purchasing and recycling policies
Organization(s): SVTC, University of California Student Groups
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Waste Not Asia conference features workshop on e-waste
Organization(s): Waste Not Asia, GAIA, AMRC, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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Presentation on “Challenging the Chip” and building the global electronics movement
Organization(s): ANROEV, AMRC, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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2006
EPEAT is launched with the publication of 1680.1 computer standard
Organization(s): Green Electronics Council, IEEE
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European Work Hazards Network meeting in Latvia workshop on electronics: Challenging the chip
Organization(s): European Work Hazards Network, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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SACOM launches the “Clean up your Computer” Campaign” and Publishes report: “Whose Sweatshop Computers? Behind the supply chain” SACOM launches the “Clean up your Computer” Campaign”
Organization(s): Students and scholars Against
Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM)
Greenpeace launches Greener Electronics campaign, challenging the sector’s leading companies to reduce their environmental footprint and meet the growing demand for greener devices. Publishes “Guide to Greener Electronics”
Organization(s): Greenpeace International
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Publication of “Challenging the chip: Labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc
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Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
“India’s Toxic Landfills: A Dumping Ground for the World’s Electronic Waste”
Organization(s): Toxics Link, Basel Action Network, Sustainable Development Law & Policy
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India’s Toxic Landfills: A Dumping Ground for the World’s Electronic Waste
Campaign proposals for Apple on take back and green design
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Computer TakeBack Campaign
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2005
Publication of “The digital dump: exporting re-use and abuse to Africa”
Organization(s): Basel Action Network, Computer TakeBack Campaign, etc.
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Dumping of e-Waste Spreading to Africa
E-waste protest at Apple board meeting with socially responsible investors
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Green Century Fund, As you sow, etc.
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Bad Apple campaign organizes “From iPod to iWaste protest” at Apple headquarters and at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco
Organization(s): Computer TakeBack Campaign, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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Activists Press Apple for Greener Waste Policy
Demonstrating Concern: Environmentalists Picket at Macworld over Apple Policies
2004
Develops Electronics Industry Code of Conduct
Organization(s): Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC)
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Global Forum in Beijing, China to address e-waste dumping in China
Organization(s): Green Electronics Council, IEEE
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2003
“Hard drive across the west” picks up e-waste in 7 cities and delivers it to the Dell shareholder’s meeting in Austin to pressure Dell on Take back
Organization(s): Computer TakeBack Campaign, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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California passes first e-waste bill in the U.S.
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Californians Against Waste, California Legislature, etc.
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Coalition protests Dell’s use of prison labor to recycle e-waste at the Consumer Electronics Show in Law Vegas
Organization(s): Computer TakeBack Campaign, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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2002
Founding conference of ICRT as part of SVTC’s 20th Anniversary: “Global symposium for a sustainable high-tech industry”
Organization(s): International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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Campaign launched to get Dell Computer to take back and recycle its obsolete products
Organization(s): Computer TakeBack Campaign, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Grass roots recycling network
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RCA victims from Taiwan launch US tour to demand accountability from RCA for worker deaths and environmental pollution
Organization(s): Electronics TakeBack Coalition and multi-stakeholder coalition
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Taiwan workers plead cancer case / Link RCA plant to disease
Chip industry says it will study health impacts of worker exposure to toxic chemicals
Organization(s): ISanta Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Semiconductor Industry Assoc.
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Publication of “Exporting harm: the high-tech trashing of Asia”
Organization(s): Basel Action Network, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Toxics Link India and Greenpeace China
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2001
From Silicon Valley to Green Silicon Island: Taiwan’s Pollution and Promise in the Era of High-Tech Globalization
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, and Taiwanese Environmental Action
Publication of Toxic TVs and Poison PCs
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Californians Against Waste and Materials for the Future
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2000
SVTC and allies launch Computer TakeBack Campaign to promote extended producer responsibility in the US
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, GrasRoots Recycling Network, Computer TakeBack Campaign
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European Commission adopts Directive on Waste from Electrical sand Electronic Equipment
Organization(s): European Commission
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Socially responsible Investors join campaign to promote computer recycling and extended producer responsibility
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Pax World Fund
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1999
Strategies to promote clean production – Extended Producer Responsibility
Organization(s): Clean Production Action, International Campaign for Responsible Technology
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Campaign launched to promote extended producer responsibility in the US to prevent the export of hazardous e-waste
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology & Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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Publication of “Electronics sustainability commitment” – the Soesterberg Principles
Organization(s): Trans-Atlantic Network for Clean Production, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Greenpeace, etc.
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Campaign to oppose high-tech industry lobbying in Europe opposing the WEEE directive
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, European Environmental Bureau
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Action Alert to Save EPR From Attack by USTR
1998
Wall Street Journal publishes front page story about cancer cluster and other diseases at National Semiconductor in Silicon Glen
Organization(s): PHASE 2 Scotland
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Socially responsible Investors develop resolution asking high tech companies to address international environmental standards in their supply chains
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, International Campaign for Responsible Technology, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
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SRI Resolution on International Environmental Standards for Electronics Subcontractors
SVTC begins to develop international linkages in Silicon Glen, Scotland and Europe, working on the WEEE and RoHS directives
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Campaign for Responsible Technology, International Campaign for Responsible Technology
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Production of the play: “Silicon Dreams” and production book celebrating 20 years of SCCOSH history
Organization(s): Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Health Watch, Toxic Avengers Theater
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1997
Publication: “Sacred Waters: 4 case studies of high-tech water resource exploitation and corporate welfare in the Southwestern USA”
Organization(s): Electronics Industry Good Neighbor Campaign, Southwest network for economic and environmental justice & Campaign for Responsible Technology
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Book Details High Tech Industry’s Water Exploitation
1996
Principles and tools for developing model participation strategy
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology
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Silicon Principles
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology & Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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Bargaining for a new industrial policy
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology
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1995
Criteria to reduce hazardous material content – chemicals, flame retardants and heavy metals
Organization(s): TCO Development
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Intel seeks $8 billion industrial revenue bond to build new factory in New Mexico, the largest ever
Organization(s): Intel
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Shareholder resolution to Intel on international standards and practices to protect workers and the environment
Organization(s): Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Southwest Organizing Project, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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1994
Campaign to end the miscarriage of justice
Organization(s): Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health & Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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“Why Intel jilted the golden state” – Intel’s Ideal Incentive Matrix and the competition for corporate subsidies
Organization(s): Intel
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Workers at the center: campaign to organize immigrant workers in Silicon Valley
Organization(s): Campaign for Justice
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Testimony at public hearing in Phoenix, Arizona to oppose the expansion of Motorola semiconductor facility
Organization(s): Electronics Industry Good Neighbor Campaign, Campaign for Responsible Technology, Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice, etc.
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1993
Coalition of labor and health groups oppose NAFTA, saying it is bad for workers and the environment
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, South Bay Labor Council, etc.
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Report by “The environmental exchange: What works?” called “Activists shape high-tech research priorities
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology, Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental justice & Electronics Industry Good Neighbor Campaign
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1992
The first TCO certification is introduced, focusing on low emissions and reduced energy consumption in displays
Organization(s): TCO Development
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Semiconductor Industry Association study finds high rates of miscarriages at US chip plants
Organization(s): University of California at Davis, School of Medicine
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High miscarriage rates found at IBM chip factories
Organization(s): Johns Hopkins
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CRT persuades Congress earmarks $10 million to SEMATECH budget for environmental and occupational health
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology, etc.
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Apple janitors win first union contract
Organization(s): Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
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Proceedings: U.S. Toxics Release Inventory data use and pollution prevention – presentation by Ted Smith
Organization(s): USEPA and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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Report: “The legacy of high-tech development: the toxic lifecycle of computer manufacturing
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Campaign for Responsible Technology & National Toxics Campaign
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The Legacy of HT Development: Toxic Lifecycle of Computer Manufacturing
1991
International Conference on reporting of releases of toxic chemicals – NGO statement
Organization(s): USEPA and OECD
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NGO Statement at International Conference on Reporting Toxic Releases
CRT meets with SEMATECH to press campaign for improved health & safety in chip industry
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology
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1990
Campaign for Responsible Technology formed and Publishes SEMATECH, Toxics and US Industrial Policy
Organization(s): Campaign for Responsible Technology (CRT)
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New Toxic Gas Law passes throughout Silicon Valley to protect workers and community
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, etc.
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1989
“Save the Ozone layer” Earthday rally at IBM in San Jose to protest massive CFC pollution
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Greenpeace, National Toxics Campaign, etc.
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Ratifies the Basel convention to prohibit the export of hazardous waste
Organization(s): United Nations
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1988
SVTC publishes first report on toxic releases based on data for new Superfund RTK law – documenting millions of pounds of toxic release in Silicon Valley
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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Publication: “Citizen’s guide to the new Federal right-to-know law“
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Toxics Coordinating Project
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Federal OSHA agents inspect Silicon Valley factories to investigate hazardous working conditions
Organization(s): U.S. OSHA
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1987
Launches high-tech campaign to protect electronics workers
Organization(s): Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO
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IBM workers form union alliance to fight for better working conditions
Organization(s): IBM Workers United
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H.R. 2791, “The Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (RERA) of 2013,” is filed, with the promise of stimulating the US recycling industry banning e-waste dumping by American firms overseas
Organization(s): Electronics TakeBack Coalition and multi-stakeholder coalition
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Responsible Electronics Recycling Act, to ban overseas dumping of US ewaste, introduced in Congress
1986
Digital Equipment Corporation health study finds high rates of miscarriages among chip workers
Organization(s): University of Massachusetts School of Public Health
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Proposition 65 passes in California with strict anti-toxics provisions and the precautionary principle
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and a broad statewide coalition
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Superfund campaign leads to passage of new Superfund law with Federal Right to know and Technical Assistance Grants
Organization(s): National Toxics Campaign, et al
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Publication: “High tech organizing around the world”
Organization(s): Integrated Circuit
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High tech toxics spread to New Mexico
Organization(s): Integrated Circuit
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Hosts conference of High Tech organizers in Silicon Valley
Organization(s): Integrated Circuit
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Integrated Circuit Network to Boost Organizing of High Technology Industry
Publishes report: “Whatever happened to job security in the High Tech industry?”
Organization(s): Boston High Tech Research Group
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1985
California study finds high birth defects in water pollution area of San Jose
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health
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Publishes “Health hazards in electronics – a handbook” – Tom Gassert
Organization(s): Asia Monitor Research Centre
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1984
EPA lists 20 Silicon Valley company sites on Superfund list
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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California passes anti-toxics law which includes a right to know about hazardous chemicals provision
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, California Legislature
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1983
Cities throughout Silicon Valley pass Hazardous Materials Model Ordinance which includes “right to know” law, making toxic chemicals public information
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and cities within Santa Clara County, CA
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1982
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition formed
Organization(s): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
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1981
Publication of “Unmasking the hazards- a workers guide to job hazards in the electronics industry
Organization(s): SCCOSH
1979
SCCOSH pushes for TCE ban at CAL-OSHA standards board
Organization(s): Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH)
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1978
Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health formed
Organization(s): Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health
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