Posted on Mon, Oct. 24, 2005
Dumping of e-waste spreading to Africa
TONS OF USED PCS ENTER NIGERIAN PORT EACH MONTH
By Karl Schoenberger
Mercury News
Hazardous electronic waste dumping has spread from East Asia to
Africa under the guise of bridging the so-called digital divide in
poverty-stricken societies, an environmental advocacy group contends
in a new report released today.
Seattle-based Basel Action Network documented scenes of e-waste
dumping and burning in Lagos, Nigeria, in its report, ``The Digital
Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa.'' The group said as many
as 500 shipping containers filled with discarded computers enter the
port of Lagos primarily from North America and Europe every month.
Most of this material is not reusable and gets dumped or burned,
posing environmental and human health hazards, the report said.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12984183.htm
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