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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.
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...
Children and digital dumpsites: e-waste exposure and child health – the main report of which this document is a summary – builds on the World Health Organization (WHO) Initiative on E-waste and Child Health, extensively updating a 2013 systematic review on emerging issues and health impacts (6). Its four sections concern e-waste settings and
18 ott 2023 · In 2021, WHO released its first global report on e-waste and child health, which called for greater effective and binding action to protect children from the growing threat.
18 ott 2021 · In 2021, human beings will discard an estimated 57.4 million tonnes (approximately 63.3 million U.S. tons) of electronic waste. That waste will outweigh the Great Wall of China, the world's heaviest human construction.
7 dic 2022 · Use these online search tools from Call2Recycle, Earth911, and the Consumer Technology Association to find places where electronics recycling is accepted (including batteries). After you find a recycler, find out whether they are legitimate.
