Toxic Computer Waste (2009): Could the waste we export to countries like Ghana one day come back to haunt us?
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Ships dock every day in the port of Accra and unload their illegal cargo. Tons of televisions, computers, e-waste from Europe land here. Scrap dealers are keen to resell the outdated technology.
"Only those functioning properly can be exported, but checks are almost impossible." Africa has no use of these obsolete computers, and earnings are very minimal. Locals are forced to send their children to contaminated scrap yards to help increase family income. "Bad recycling spreads contamination to rivers, lagoons and the sea, poisoning fish that lands not only on the tables of locals, but also finds its way to where it originally came from Europe." As Christina Schroeder argues: "The poison is not in Africa, it comes to Africa."
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