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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.
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...
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.
Jun 21, 2021 · In the Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana, workers strip electronic cables in order to uncover “gold, silver, copper and other valuable metals.” Workers resort to “acid leaching and cable burning” to more easily and economically strip cables, but these practices release harmful chemicals and byproducts that impact the health of ...
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.
Jan 1, 2020 · Scrap workers, the public (Agbogbloshie is the largest open food market in Accra), and livestock come in direct contact with toxic substances, including arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants, at Agbogbloshie, every day.
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 ...
