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Electronic waste dropped off at Officeworks’ recycling points are exported to Hong Kong and Thailand for disposal in breach of an international treaty, a new report claims.

As detailed in their report, titled Illegal Export of e-Waste from Australia, BAN deployed 35 pieces of e-waste across Australia between September and October last year, including CRT and LCD monitors and printers — which qualify under the Basel Convention as hazardous waste.

Two LCD screens were deployed at different Officeworks “Bring IT Back” drop off points in stores in the Brisbane area. The bins are also part of an official Australian government-sanctioned “Drop Zone” program.

“Due to the presence of mercury in the backlights of these LCD monitors and the lead in the circuit boards of the monitors, and because the equipment was rendered non-functional, the equipment was clearly hazardous waste under the definitions of the Basel Convention.”

Electronic waste dropped at government-approved recycling points at Officeworks stores was allegedly exported to developing countries, potentially breaching a global waste treaty, a non-government organisation has said.

The US-based Basel Action Network (Ban) – which embeds GPS units inside discarded electronics and monitors them – said in a report to be released on Thursday that two LCD monitors the organisation placed at Officeworks’ “Bring IT Back” drop zones in Brisbane were tracked to an area of Hong Kong’s New Territories known for “e-waste trafficking”.

One of the monitors was later “re-exported to an e-waste processing facility” in Thailand, where Ban investigators said they observed plumes of smoke from burning circuitboards falling out over local crops of rice, castor beans and mangos.

In September and October, 2017, Ban investigators deployed 35 old computers, printers and monitors embedded with GPS trackers to drop zones in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. It then monitored the trackers over the course of a year.

In addition, the United Nations-funded report said the tracking devices indicated that another five devices – which were placed at drop zones run by companies other than Officeworks – ended up in landfill in Australia.