Electronic Waste in Ghana

http://www.greenpeace.org/internation...

Ghana is the latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.

Digg it: http://digg.com/world_news/Poisoning_...

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[retroworks1]

Method: Go to the dump at a major African city (e.g. Accra, Lagos) with tens of millions of residents, where they have had electronics since the 1970s. Film children scavenging the African generated decades old waste.  Then blame African technicians who are today buying used equipment for hospitals and internet cafes. Way to go Greenpeace.

[Garrett Y.]

I'm sure they do.

[Bredli37]

Older games. People like playing newer games. Your computer probably isn't as power conservative as newer technology, either.

[Troy Palmer]

Corpus

[Forpulet Tilfældigt]

The smoke from the burning plastic, lead and mercury hurts you? No shit? How about getting some damn pliers and stripping those cords like any other person would? Instead being 10 people standing around..? Done.

[CARL WongTW]

Well done man :]

[Garrett Y.]

That's what I'm doing, still running an older 2001 dell 8200 still, works great for surfing the web, and older games :)

[SuperRawGamerz]

Sad