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15 giu 2021 · The health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...
15 giu 2021 · Children and digital dumpsites: Smaller hands, cheaper labour - the crisis of e-waste and children's health. 15 June 2021 | Q&A. How many children and women work in the informal e-waste processing sector? How much e-waste is generated each year and where does it go?
- More than 18 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 years old are engaged in the industrial sector, of which waste processing is a subsector...
- According to the Global E-waste Statistics Partnership’s Global E-waste Monitor, in 2019, some 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste were generated, equiv...
- Informal e-waste workers, including children, may be exposed to over 1,000 harmful substances, including lead, cadmium, mercury, dioxins, nickel, b...
- E-waste exposure has been linked to a variety of adverse health outcomes. Prenatal and childhood exposures to e-waste toxicants are associated with...
- Children working in these conditions are more vulnerable than adults to toxins released through e-waste because they have less developed organs and...
- In response to the health threats informal waste disposal poses, UN agencies and independent experts have called for stronger action on improperly...
- The WHO Initiative on E-waste and Child Health, launched in 2013, aims to increase access to evidence, knowledge and awareness of the health impact...
15 giu 2021 · As many as 18 million children and adolescents and 12.9 million women, including an unknown number of women of childbearing age, may be at risk from adverse health outcomes linked to e-waste recycling. The report is intended to increase awareness and knowledge among health professionals of the dangers that e-waste recycling poses to the health ...
13 gen 2016 · During the last decade, some of the world’s most respected media organizations have transformed Agbogbloshie into a symbol of what’s believed to be a growing crisis: the export—or dumping—of...
"The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-use and Abuse to Africa" exposes the ugly underbelly of the global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-...
- 23 min
- 16,9K
- BaselAction
This documentary has been shown around the world, including at the UN, on ABC, PBS, BBC and beyond. It's the story of the illegal electronics waste trade in ...
- 23 min
- 67,9K
- Len Davis
15 gen 2007 · The Digital Dump is the story of the illegal and immoral international electronics waste trade seen through the lens of one African country. Shot in Lagos Nigeria for the Basel...
- 3 min
- 77,1K
- Len Davis
