Environmental stories tagged with: kenya

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Export loophole allowing e-waste dumping in Africa and Asia

Tuesday, 12th August 2008, 5:58 pm
Thanks to WEEE, a European-wide scheme requiring electronic producers to take-back our old electronic items, we are sending less of our e-waste to landfill than ever before.  Have you ever thought what happens to our e-waste?  According to some Greenpeace investigations, they are being illegally dumped in India, China, Ghana and other developing nations as "second-hand goods".
 
 
 
 
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