“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 ...
When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...
When Americans no longer want a car, laptop or clothes, where do some of those goods go? Most end up in the Global South, where millions of people depend on repairing, dismantling or selling them for ...
Ghana has tightened its grip on electronic waste imports in recent years, aiming to curb the environmental toll of decades of discarded technology flowing from wealthier nations. But during a 2024 ...
Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and ... positive ... consequences. When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel ...