The big electronic rubbish dump

  Developed countries like the U.S., England, Germany and Japan, throw out annually forty million tons of electronic rubbish and all this ends in huge dumps in Africa mostly. There are millions of TVs, printers, phones and other electronic devices that reach these Third territories, polluting land and water poisoned thousands of children who are exposed to toxic substances such as cadmium, arsenic and mercury.

In many of the markets that are near landfills, sold everything that can be salvaged from inside the apparatus. Many times it is children who roam disarm scavenging and pulling objects are copper, steel and aluminum to earn some money.

Those guilty of all waste arriving to Africa are the manufacturers of these items should have a recycling plan for all this garbage is reused and not continue polluting countries trying to emerge. But a recycling plan is much more expensive to dispose of electronics in landfills throwing huge and hurting millions.

                           To finish here is a video about electronic rubbish in Africa.