Where to go electronic wastes?
28 June 2011 Ntvmsnbc
The destruction of electronic wastes such as old cell phone, computer, television is one of the world's growing environmental problems. Poor countries, especially African if they suffer most from trouble. [[T][4]
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]]The capital of Gana can be seen remotely, rising fumes toward the sky in Accra. As the point where the smoke came out, a sharp smell begins to come from the tip of the nose pole. The smell comes from burning cables. Scrap cables in Agbogbloshi are burned by children. “My name is Razat. Separate copper wires inside my work cable. We take the cable and burn the plastic around it. Razat, who recognizes himself with words that we earn money from this business, if things go well, 10 times a day from copper wires they extract from cables, that is, gaining 5 euros. This is a moment on average daily income in Ghana. The family is quite attractive for children who are poor.
What is it worth their health. In the case of the Agbogbloshi poisoned the soil with heavy metals, the smoke that reveals the result of the burning of plastic is also toxic. 16-year-old Kwesi is aware that it is nested with poison. Kwesi, “You are sick if you are going to the nose of the guy. The eyes and nose. But if we don’t do it, we don’t have food bread.”
The fact that the cables are burned and destroyed by burning the cables in Gana are just the face that the iceberg looks. According to the estimates of the United Nations Environmental Programme, the computer displays, mobile phones, television and refrigerator, an average of 40 million tons of electronic garbage has been revealed annually.
One of the used electronics is sent to emerging countries. Used electronic devices are sold or sold in those countries or are destroyed by environmentally friendly methods. The environmental organizations also warn that third world countries have turned into a giant trash because of the electronic waste brought through the sea from Western countries.
O if the Basel Convention, where almost all countries are party, prohibits the international trade of toxic electronic waste and illegal transfer. According to the Applied Ecology Institute in Freiburg, the center of Germany, 15 percent of the electronic devices brought to Ghana will be rubbed. This is about 22 thousand tons. According to the data of the Institute, the second hand electronic device trade in Ghana provides 22 thousand to 33 thousand people. The government in Ghana also realizes the problem. However, there is no sufficient income for measures to ensure that goods brought from abroad are subjected to a better control. From the state-of-the-art environmental protection agency, Joseph Edmund is in the case of hope to the private sector. Edmund, “There are some companies dealing with recycling business here. Smalls but they take the job seriously. Currently, the government seems to have to take responsibility alone. But in the future we are waiting for private companies to operate in the recycling area.
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]]In the trash in the Agbogbloshi, the smoke sky is covered from a burning refrigerator. Timothy sits in front of one of the containers around with the circuits collected from the electronic scrap. Timothy, “I have two circuits I extracted from a computer and a DVD-chains. I sell them to Chinese, they also then export them.”
The circuits used in China are recycled, which is both efficient and ecological method. It will show time if it will not leave and leave the place of harmful recycling to the environment in Ghana.
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