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E-waste: Burning old TVs – the toxic trade in electrical waste

Source link : https://www.afric.info/2024/11/24/news/e-waste-burning-old-tvs-the-toxic-trade-in-electrical-waste/

BBC E-waste is trafficked as reusable goods into several poorer countries then either burnt or dumped after valuable metals have been extracted You can see thick plumes of smoke rise from the Agbogbloshie dumpsite from miles away. The air at the vast dump, in the west of Ghana’s capital Accra, is highly toxic. The closer […]

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Author : AFRICA-NEWS

Publish date : 2024-11-24 10:42:15

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