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RE: The E-Waste Mega Dump of Agbogbloshie

in #travelfeed5 years ago

This is craziness! Thanks for braving the journey so the rest of us don't have to. I've been curious about our recycling since I learnt that China wasn't accepting it anymore... and that's when I learnt that the Chinese government had basically been dumping it and it's people would comb through for materials... so obviously it makes sense that Ghana has picked this up.

For everyone reading this... if you do throw away a computer or harddrive, you legitimately need to drill through them to protect your deleted data.

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Yes, drill or open and smash the drive discs. I wish we could just drop all that stuff back to the manufacturers door step, forcing them to take it back in and they're actually responsible to recycle it in the correct way.

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