CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agbogbloshie, Regent University, Electronic Waste
5 Jan 2020
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On the outskirts of ghana"s biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the. Ghana: digital dumping ground banks of the korle lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. They basically are here to earn a living. But you can imagine the health implications. : some of the boys burn old foam on top of computers to melt away the plastic, leaving behind scraps of copper and iron they can collect to sell. The younger boys use magnets from old speakers to gather up the smaller pieces left behind at the burn site: anane says he used to play soccer here as a kid, when it was pristine wetland. Since then, he"s become one of the country"s leading environmental journalists: i"m trying to get some ownership labels, anane tells reporters. I"m collecting them because you need them as evidence. You need to tell the world where these things are coming from.
