How To Pay For Africa E-Waste Cleanup?
Yes, the old TVs at Africa scrapyards were imported decades ago. Yes, they were reused and repaired for years. Yes, the Tech Sector is innocent of "ewaste crime". Yes, the piles around cities like Tamale and Accra are abandoned repairs - just like the TVs abandoned at Massachusetts repair shops, documented in the September 2000 Jobs Through Recycling: Electronics Reuse and Recycling Infrastructure in Massachusetts report. But no, they are not going away on their own. Ghana needs the same thing Massachusetts needed in the 1990s - a way to fund a practical, inexpensive, recycling infrastructure.
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