Stop toxic e-waste dumping in the developing world!

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Waste from electronics, particularly cell phones and computers, comes from many places—from Europe and the United States to South America, Asia, and Africa—and ends up in developing countries.

Is this practice legal? Find out in this 2009 article on regulations and the legality vs. illegality of exporting waste from different countries: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/science/earth/27waste.html

How much e-waste is really created? This article helps explain the quantity of e-waste: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/14/toxic-ewaste-illegal-dumping-developing-countries

[Photo credit: Eirik Solheim, Unsplash.com.]

 

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