Jim Puckett

[upbeat music] If a company is certified and calls itself a recycler, is that enough? Or can the paperwork hide the real destination? Hello, and welcome to the Resource Recycling podcast.

I'm Uriah Kiser, and on this episode, we're gonna be talking with Jim Puckett.

He is the founder and chief of strategic direction at the Basel Action Network.

He started BAN in 1997 after running Toxics Works at Greenpeace International, and has been in the room at every UN Basel Convention COP since 1989, and oversaw the creation of the e-Stewards standard.

So it's a mixed bag of everyone in the room.

Uh, but it's, it's a great, uh, avenue, that's why I go there every time.

Jim Puckett is the founder and chief of strategic direction at the Basel Action Network.

Jim, this has been a lot of fun.

In the very least, they would love to form their own school district so they could meet the needs in their own community.

One person who's been on the forefront of this conversation is joining us this morning, referring, of course, to Jim Puckett, who is back with us.

Welcome back, sir.

Good to talk to you again.

It comes back to this issue of local control.

It's what people are looking for now more than ever.

Jim Puckett, thanks a lot for joining us on the broadcast.

Enjoy your time far away from the madness.

And it's by a man who has a lot of experience with the county and with the school system.

And that person is Jim Puckett.

This is really interesting because it's an interview that was conducted yesterday.

Back in 2018, this is October of 2018.

And a lot of people in northern Mecklenburg County have felt neglected for years.

I want you to hear a couple of pieces of audio.

This is the first... where I want you to hear Jim Puckett talk about the history of CMS and North Mecklenburg.

Listen

I remember it well, led by guys like John Rhodes and...

Jim Puckett, Larry Gavreau.

To break the district into multiple districts for more ability to control, and I also recommended an outside audit.

We're talking back in 2005 when I called into Keith Larson's show.

He was a state lawmaker.

And along with guys like Jim Puckett, and I think Larry Gavreau may have been part of this effort, there were, especially up in the northern part of Mecklenburg County, they wanted to secede from CMS.

They wanted the state to break up CMS because CMS was not building schools in the northern part of the county.

Because there were too many white people up there.