#E-waste piles up in #Ghana, despite international controls | Deutsche Welle | 29.06.2011
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Ghana often ends up the final resting place for used electronic devices. While some of the materials can be recycled, much is also sent there illegally, damaging the environment and the people who exploit it
E-waste piles up in Ghana, despite international controls | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 29.06.2011
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But an exception is made to the convention for electronic goods that are still considered usable. And that, according to environmental groups, is turning Ghana and other countries that accept the waste into the world’s ’e-dump.’
Germany’s Institute for Applied Ecology in Freiburg estimates that 15 percent of the used electronic devices that end up in Ghana are in fact junk - amounting to 22 000 tons of e-waste per year.
E-waste piles up in #Ghana, despite international controls | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 29.06.2011
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