Ghana - European e-waste damages health and environment

AMBIENTE

The new report 'What a waste' from makeITfair reveals the health and environmental problems of the uncontrolled flow of e-waste from Europe to Ghana. Each month,

around 600 containers of second-hand electronics arrive in Ghana. Most of it is obsolete and ends up being burned at dump-sites. The UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and Spain are the top exporters of used computers to Ghana. (...)

The article:
http://somo.nl/news-en/european-e-waste-damages-health-and-environment-in-ghana/

More about:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1009772

The Report:

http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_3721

Sull'argomento:

http://www.altreconomia.it/site/fr_contenuto_detail.php?intId=3105

http://www.scienze-naturali.it/ambiente-natura/il-lungo-viaggio-del-televisore-inglese

Past...present:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2945:ghanas-forest-cover-is-virtually-gone&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58