In 1985, when I lived in Cameroon, and visited a large city like Yaounde or Douala, crossing the street was not too difficult. As you stood at the corner and watched vehicles go by, it looked something like this...
I will have to upload some of the photos later.
Millions of tons (I actually had to edit that claim out of Wikipedia and identify the source had misquoted a study saying that was the world's generation, and then applied 80% literally to Agbogbloshie). That's 60 to 90 million CRTs, if it's at least 2 million tons.
(I took about 150 photos, but most of my photos were of the photographers... I'll talk about why. The shots are too big to upload here from my Ghana pocket wifi Vodaphone transceiver. Some from Fair Trade Recycling e-waste reform Facebook Page).
There were about 50 people, including myself and an American and two European reporters and my friends who took us there - my Ghana Geek pal Wahab, two of his cousins (all from same tribe and locale as the teenagers at the dump) and a lawyer and import agent. About 25 of them were "on the job".
Taxi. Taxi. Taxi. Truck. TaxiVan. Taxi. Taxi. Mercedes. TaxiVan. Taxi. Truck...Here in Accra, capital of Ghana, thirty years later, things have changed.
Taxi. Toyota. Honda. Truck. Taxi. Mercedes. Infiniti. TaxiVan. Truck. Taxi. Truck. Jaguar. Truck, Hyundai, Taxi, GMC, Taxi, Taxivan, Truck, Nissan, Toyota.... and the sentence goes on and on for half a page.We were on our way to the "scene of the crime". The place Blacksmith Institute placed at the top of their list of most toxic places on the planet. Where Frontline interviewed Jim Puckett, describing the place where "most" of the world's e-waste goes. Where Mr. Mike Anane says 500 sea containers per month arrive for primitive dumping. Where several sources describe, and I quote, "Millions of tons of e-waste per year" are dumped and burned. The site described by Joe Benson's prosecutor as "common knowledge" that 80 percent (that #$%$ stat) winds up after Benson exported it.
I will have to upload some of the photos later.
Millions of tons (I actually had to edit that claim out of Wikipedia and identify the source had misquoted a study saying that was the world's generation, and then applied 80% literally to Agbogbloshie). That's 60 to 90 million CRTs, if it's at least 2 million tons.
(I took about 150 photos, but most of my photos were of the photographers... I'll talk about why. The shots are too big to upload here from my Ghana pocket wifi Vodaphone transceiver. Some from Fair Trade Recycling e-waste reform Facebook Page).
There were about 50 people, including myself and an American and two European reporters and my friends who took us there - my Ghana Geek pal Wahab, two of his cousins (all from same tribe and locale as the teenagers at the dump) and a lawyer and import agent. About 25 of them were "on the job".
