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by Eliza Barclay, Nomad on 08. 7.08 Photo credit: Greenpeace/Kate Davison We've covered the extensive electronic waste, or in the past. Now Africa is emerging as a new favorite dumping ground for our aged electronic products, and the implications for human health are disturbing. Greenpeace is reporting that items like computer monitors, hard drives, television sets and printers from the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and South Korea are ending up in Africa dumps like the one in Ghana's capital, Accra. Though in nearly all European countries it is illegal to dump e-waste because it often contains toxics like lead and chlorinated dioxins, increasingly aid groups are encouraging Europeans to send their old equipment to developing countries to be reused. But Greenpeace learned that devious electronics traders are buying... [read full story]
