Recycling organizations that intend to seek accredited certification are now field testing the Basel Action Network (BAN) final draft standard. Following review by those organizations and input to BAN, the standard will be finalized in June, according to BAN.

Once the standard is finalized, a few e-Stewards will be moving into a final verification phase to pilot all levels of the certification activities in the last half of 2009.” The BAN release says, “We remain on target for a full launch in early 2010 accompanied by a comprehensive marketing effort and media work to promote your companies.”