SERI: Taking a Cut of All Solar Panel Resale. Criminal Racketeering. ANAB? ANSI? Please Help.

Definition:   RACKETEERS OFFER A DECEITFUL SERVICE TO FIX A PROBLEM THAT OTHERWISE WOULDN'T EXIST.

Sustainable Electronics Recycling Institute -Formerly known as "R2 Solutions" - is in criminal racketeering territory nowadays.

They already violated ANSI and ANAB rules with Version 3, as we documented here 3 years ago. Now they are taking something - secondhand solar panels - which they have NEVER shown ANAB or ANSI they have ANY expertise or authority in, and are clearly making their monetary interests (SERI YOUR SALARY) upfront. @2019 Blog on Certification and Racketeering.

Read this. If you are certified by SERI to test solar panels for reuse, you pay them $20lk, it's fine. But if you sell the solar panels to a Solar Panel Expert Wizard - WHO HAS NEVER HEARD OF SERI OR R2 - you can only do so if SERI has issued the Solar Panel Expert Wizard a CERTIFICATE costing $20,000.

This is not allowed unless SERI gets money.

Environmentalists Must Learn From Misdiagnoses: How CRT TCLP Would Affect Asbestos, Solar

First, by request, here are the photos the blog "Halloween Images of Scary Black People" pointed out a decade ago.  The blog was about language used to flog normal activities, rendering them repulsive - or heroicizing the same image (using Wordsworth's "The Village Blacksmith" to describe metal recycling compared to the way BAN.org described metal recycling at Agbogbloshie).

The BAN NGO was so proud of one photograph - of a man carrying copper and aluminum wiring (from scrap automobile harnesses inside a 1970s Magnavox kitchen tabletop TV case) - that they use it on their website masthead, and in annual fundraisers for "Giving Tuesday".  BAN offers readers who feel sorry for the "primitive" man the chance to donate $25-1000 to their NGO.  How the young man will benefit from your donation isn't exactly clear.

But as we pointed out in 2012, that self-same Magnavox kitchen-table CRT television was very, very, very unlikely to have arrived - as BAN repeatedly claims - "days earlier", or as a result of environmental externalization. Even back in 2012, that 1970s TV was an ebay collector's item selling for over $100. It bore no earthly relation to the TVs BAN or Greenpeace filmed unloaded at African port of Tema in 2009, or Jim Puckett's infamous updated photo of Africa's "primitive" Tech Sector.

Here is a picture of the top selling album in Nigeria in 1978 - by Africa's "Elton John" of the 1970s, the artist crowned as "Prince Nico Mbarga" (whose lilting song "Sweet Mother" from the same album remains Africa's chart-topper to this day).

Soooo, there's no evidence at all that the man in BAN's photo is carrying a TV imported used in 2012, vs. imported new or used in 1977. But BAN's practice of pushing the plastic casing as evidence of environmental injustice is ironically quite bigoted. BAN's unspoken assumption is that if-not-but-for villains like Joe "Hurricane" Benson, Agbogbloshie would be full of swimming and fishing young Michael Ananes, littered only with banana peels and coconut shells.

INTERPOL's (Higgins and Lindemulder) "Project Eden" was cruelly naive about African city waste. 

Part 3: How (too) Quietly the Big Ewaste Lies are Buried ("Behind Her Feet")

BEHIND HER FEET 

Conversation about my 5- Twitter Post today (different photo mashup).

Thesis:  Post Colonialist OEMs continue to benefit from virgin raw material extraction, which was opposed 50 years ago by Environmental Activists. Today, the Planned Obsolescence Privileged OEMs (POPOs) have twisted environmental laws to inflict collateral damage on the #RightToRepair and #Reuse Tech Sector.

They do it with #PovertyPorn, and lies about exports being dumped 80% of the time in small city scrapyards like Agbogbloshie. They use our enviro sense of shame about out own consumption to trick us into shredding stuff that poor people need and want, lest it be one day discarded by the poor after decades of reuse. We unwittingly fell for a Ptolemy Story, that the Circular Economy Revolves around White Countries. We let our atonement #RighteousnessTrap for colonialist past crimes distract from the Mining, Forestry, Petroleum and other Subsidized goods.  Without the raw material and energy subsidies, and extraction from the global south, the value of Secondhand Goods would increase to full potential.