January

• BAN attends Waste Not Asia meeting of Asian NGOs in Kerala, India. Shows both E-waste films, and is featured as keynoter on the Japanese Free Trade Agreement menace.
  
  
• BAN attends special meeting in Colorado to educate school systems there on electronic waste disposition.
  
  
• BAN with Junk JPEPA Coalition in Philippines stage a demonstration at Senate.
  
  
• BAN Sends out Press Release warning that the launch of Vista will create a Tsunami of electronic waste on the shores of developing countries. Release was covered in world press and precipitated a meeting with Microsoft.

February

• BAN, together with GAIA issues press release showing the intent of Japan to sign a bilateral agreement with India liberalizing trade in wastes.
  
  
• BAN together with Japanese and other Asian NGOs issues a press release decrying Japan's twisting the arms of Asian neighbors to take their hazardous waste. The release provided new evidence of Japan's intent to undermine Basel Convention.

March

• BAN issues press release denouncing global StEP program refusal to condemn exports of electronic wastes to developing countries and for their lack of inclusion and transparency.
  
  
• BAN serves Japan with Basel non-Compliance Notification for their intended use of bilateral free trade agreements to undermine the Basel Convention.
  
  
• Excellent article appears in New Republic Magazine featuring many of BAN's recent press releases, entitled Data Dump.
  
  
• BAN attends Take it Back conference in Washington DC. Speaks and shows film the Digital Dump.

April

• BAN Asia Pacific together with a coalition of Asian groups issued a press release revealing the large number of Philippine Senatorial Candidates that called for a rejection of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, and in support of ratification of the Ban Amendment.
  
  
• BAN and a coalition of American groups responded in a press release to the Apple Corporation’s denunciation of two stockholders resolutions calling on Apple to design greener products and take full responsibility for not exporting their hazardous electronic waste.
  
  
• BAN helps organize Japanese environmental groups to denounce the JTEPA (Thai-Japanese economic agreement) in the Japanese press due to its waste trade liberalization obligations.

May

• BAN Asia Pacific staged a major protest and media event in front of the Japanese embassy in Manila in a mock theatrical display of the Iwo Jima flag raising the symbol of the Japanese Yen over a pile of toxic waste and Asian developing country victims.
  
  
• BAN’s Richard Gutierrez and Yuka Takamiya visit the Asia Development Bank meeting in Tokyo and conduct a well attended workshop on the Japanese Economic Partnership Agreements (JEPAs) and their anti-Basel Convention waste trade liberalization intent. BAN meets bank trustees and lodges its concerns regarding the 3Rs program and the JEPAs.
  
  
• Victory! -- The contract between the US Maritime Administration and the UK shipbreakers to receive 9 more ships stopped earlier by a BAN/Sierra Club/Earthjustice lawsuit was finally scrapped. BAN called it a victory for domestic recyclers, jobs and the environment.
  
  
• BAN attends Good Electronics Roundtable in Bangkok, presents on export of electronic waste.
  
  
• BAN attends UNEP working group on Mercury in Bangkok.
  
  
• BAN attends Asia-Pacific SAICM Regional Workshop in Bangkok.
  
  
• BAN attends Kemi-Asia Chemical Issues meeting.
  
  
• BAN attends meeting organized by EPA for final negotiations over the Best Management Practices for Electronic Waste recyclers in the United States. BAN continues to press for controls on export.

June

• BAN attends first meeting of the Partnership for Action on Computer Equipment (named by BAN) – a multistakeholder partnership program of the Basel Convention.
  
  
• BAN featured in Le Monde newspaper.
  
  
• BAN warns that Ghost Fleet ships are currently leaching heavy metal contamination following a study in Suisun Bay, California. BAN calls for immediate recycling.
  
  
• BAN signs distribution agreement for its films in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries and in the UK for educational market.
  
  
• BAN submits comments on the changes in the solid waste rules of the US, calling for compliance with the Basel Convention even prior to ratification.