19May
Toxic Electronic Graveyards
The Mail Online reports of the Harrowing images revealing one of west-Africa’s vast electronic graveyards where ‘millions of tonnes’ of discarded appliances from all over the world – including the UK – are being dumped every year.
Thousands of broken televisions, computers, microwaves and refrigerators are being illegally exported to African countries and dumped gigantic landfills like Agbogbloshie in Ghana because it costs less than recycling them in their countries of origin, campaigners claim.
41 million tonnes of ‘e-waste’ worth over £34billion were discarded globally in 2014, according to a shocking report by United Nations University who claim only 6 million tonnes of that was recycled properly.
