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Agbogbloshie is a nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city in the Greater Accra region. Near the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site became known as a destination for externally generated automobile and electronic scrap collected from mostly ...
May 29, 2019 · Heavy, acidic gusts of smoke billow across the Agbogbloshie dump, a wasteland dotted with burning mounds of trash in Ghana’s capital, Accra. Up to 10,000 workers wade through tons of discarded ...
Jan 13, 2016 · At Agbogbloshie, the fastest, cheapest, and favored way to recycle copper from insulated wire is to burn it. ©Jon Spaull/SciDev.Net. Agbogbloshie is not a pleasant place to work.
Jul 21, 2022 · As Agbogbloshie scrapyard workers forge new paths, their position in the globalized scrap economy, where profit distributions often favour those higher along the chain (refineries and smelters), has been weakened by the government’s violent clearing of their business and their failure to recognize the discarded electronics as part ...
May 2, 2022 · Agbogbloshie is an old neighborhood in Central Accra that has become an internationally known hotspot of e-waste recycling. A large informal settlement called Old Fadama, lies adjacent to Agbogbloshie, just a few hundred meters southeast of the central waste dump where a considerable portion of recycling practices occur.
Sep 3, 2019 · Agbogbloshie in Ghana is a vast urban area that houses a massive e-waste recycling dump. Situated on the banks of the Korle Lagoon alongside the Old Fadama slum, it is home to around 80...
May 16, 2016 · Discover Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana: The world’s largest digital waste dump has become a site where organized criminals hack into confidential government data.
Oct 14, 2014 · Hundreds of millions of tons of electronic waste are sent to Agbogbloshie every year, with workers (some starting at the age of six) ingesting carcinogens like cadmium, arsenic, lead and flame retardants every time they burn an electronic item in search of valuable metal.
Mar 26, 2014 · Agbogbloshie was once a beautiful and thriving wetland, a haven for a variety of small wildlife. Birding enthusiasts travelled here from all over the world to see the abundant birdlife in the ...
Feb 25, 2021 · In Agbogbloshie, a district of Ghana's capital Accra, at least 5,000 informal scrap metal workers come each day to burn electric and electronic equipment, or e-waste, extracting precious and ...
