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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 · 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 · 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.
18 ott 2023 · Several unsound practices have been observed at e-waste sites including: scavenging ; dumping on land or in water bodies ; landfilling along with regular waste ; opening burning or heating ; acid baths or acid leaching ; stripping and shredding plastic coatings ; manual disassembly of equipment.
1 gen 2014 · A list of the 10 most polluted places on Earth ranges from nuclear sites to e-waste dumps.
The burgeoning global market in electronic and electrical devices, combined with shorter device life expectancies, is fuelling an unprecedented health crisis for children in the developing world – exposing them to dangerous chemicals and air pollutants at home, in their communities, and in places where they often work illegally in exploitative
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...
