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Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) waste, or e-waste, is illegally brought into African states every year.A minimum of 250,000 metric tons of e-waste comes into the continent, and according to the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, the majority of it in West Africa enters from Europe. [1]
The dumping and processing of electronic waste in Agbogbloshie severely contaminated the air, land, and water in the entire area. Photographs from the Agbogbloshie e-waste landfill showed scrap workers burning wires from auto harnesses and plastic-encased electronics to recover copper. [25]
The Olusosun nigerian dumpsite is a 100-acre [1] dump in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. [2] It is the largest in Africa, and one of the largest in the world. The site receives up to 10,000 tons of rubbish each day. Waste from around 500 container ships is also delivered to the site, adding a substantial portion of electronic waste. Some of this ...
The e-Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA) [3] was established in 2008 to manage the establishment of a sustainable environmentally sound e-waste management system for the country. Since then the non-profit organization has been working with manufacturers, vendors and distributors of electronic and electrical goods and e-waste handlers ...
Africa is the least generator of e-waste per capita at 2.5 kg. ... Scrap workers at the Agbogbloshie e-waste dump regularly burn electronic components and auto ...
Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. [1]Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used.
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E. Electronic waste in Africa; O. Olusosun landfill This page was last edited on 16 August 2017, at 14:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...