Electronic Waste in Ghana

Author:
Greenpeace International
Publisher:
Greenpeace International
Publication Date:
4 August 2008
Tags:
Ghana, ICT and Telecom, Water and Sanitation, Environment

Ghana is the latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution.

Greenpeace's analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.

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