BAN’s mission is to champion global environmental health and justice by ending toxic trade, catalyzing a toxics-free future, and campaigning for everyone’s right to a clean environment.BAN’s namesake is the 1989 United Nations Basel Convention, which restricts the trade of hazardous waste between more developed countries and less developed countries.  BAN currently tackles two toxic waste streams covered by the Basel Convention:  Electronic waste (e-waste), the fastest growing waste stream globally End-of-life ships, like the cargo ships that carry our goods We prevent pollution dumping on the world’s poorest residents