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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