List of quotes attributed to Jim Puckett:

"That's just what Puckett said Basel Action Network is building now, with a new third-party certification system called e-Stewards that will replace the pledge program. But because the effort is funded in part by donations from the industry - including $50,000 from ERI itself - Hogye is skeptical, saying it poses a potential pay-to-play conflict. "If you pay enough money you can be certified for anything," said Hogye. "Quite frankly, this is a means of advertising." Shegerian disagreed, saying the network needs financial support to be an industry watchdog. "If people who care don't fund it, it's just not going to exist," he said."

Meta-Actor: Journalism

Source Document: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2010/dec/07/recyclers-obey-ban-toxic-e-waste-selling-it-overse/36363/

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“Environmentalists worry that, if improperly handled, used electronics like TV screens, computer monitors, and even cell phones can have devastating consequences for the air, land, and water.   Jim Puckett, an environmental activist at Seattle-based Basel Action Network, has observed areas where processing takes place in the developing world. "Whole villages were making their living burning little wires, cooking computer chips, breathing toxic fumes," Puckett says. "Vats of chips were soaked in acid to extract the gold and all the residues were flushed into the river." According to surveys made on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), these practices are not uncommon in developing countries where large quantities of electronics are informally recycled using the environmentally unsafe methods Puckett describes."

Meta-Actor: Not-for-Profit

Source Document: http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/biores/news/us-regulation-of-e-waste-exports-under-scrutiny-from-within

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""You can export anything as long as it's tested and functional and nonhazardous," Puckett said. 

BAN contends countries in Africa and elsewhere trying to get the electronic hand-me-downs of the industrialized world — reusable computers, stereos and more — instead are shipped up to 80% useless e-waste. In primitive workshops, workers extract precious metals from circuit boards by burning them, exposing themselves to toxic fumes."

Meta-Actor: Journalism

Source Document: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/26/e-waste-empire-middlebury-vermont-discarded-electronics/2880359/