Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world

Mongabay
Dec 3, 2025, 4:18 pm124 ptsTrending
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what…

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