Global Policy on E-Waste Management

Reblogged from NPONG BALIKAWU FRANCIS:

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E-waste is said to be the fastest growing waste component of global waste that endangered environment.   In spite of the health risks associated with waste picking, the business is booming across Africa and parts of Asia and attracting thousands of unemployment youth into the sector.

Few meters away from Korle Lagoon (source of water) in Accra-Ghana, a ghastly dark clouds smoke accompanied by tongues of wild flames emerged and spread across the sky of almost the entire area stood a young African boy, Alhassan Yakubu 19, an urban migrant stack in Nima slum.

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