Wednesday, September 21, 2011

E-Waste Photo of the Day: Computer Graveyard in Ghana

Credit: Pieter Hugo for The New York Times
In a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana adults and children alike rummage through computers shipped from overseas to get at the precious metals inside. When Greenpeace sampled the soil here in 2008 they found found high levels of lead, cadmium, antimony, PCBs 
and chlorinated dioxins.

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