Market scavenger boy, Alaba market, Lagos, Nigeria.
Image Courtesy of Basel Action Network.

The Basel Action Network just recently published a report entitled, The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa. The report goes over electronic waste and its oft mismanagement when e-waste is exported in the name of donating electronics to help bridge the ‘digital divide.’

Jim Puckett, who led the field investigation and coordinator of the Basel Action Network comments:

“Re-use is a good thing, bridging the digital divide is a good thing, but exporting loads of technotrash in the name of these lofty ideals and seriously damaging the environment and health of poor communities in developing countries is criminal.”

For accountable e-waste recycling, check out GreenCitizen.

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See Also: Portraits of American Mass Consumption,$100 Laptop Wastestream Critique,Green Citizen,

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