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Unfair Trade e-Waste in Africa
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Africa is quickly becoming a destination for information technology in the form of tons of used computers, fax machines, cell phones, and other electronics. Although many of these machines can be repaired and resold, up to 75% of the electronics shipped to Africa is junk. This equipment, when dumped, may leach lead, mercury, and cadmium into the environment; when burned, it may release carcinogenic dioxins and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. In the United States, activists are working to limit the flow of e-waste to developing countries through international agreements and voluntary e-waste export reduction efforts.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmidt, C. W.
- Corresponding author
- Schmidt, Charles W.
- Venue
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2006-04-01
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- A232-A235
- ISSN
- 0091-6765 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-9924
- PMC
- PMC1440802
- OpenAlex
- W2045240155
- Cited by
- 243
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 18
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor, 4290 d)
- Locations
- Environmental Health Perspectives (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Metals and Alloys › Extraction and Separation Processes
- Keywords
- electronic waste, e-waste export, unfair trade, developing countries, lead, mercury, cadmium, dioxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, hazardous waste dumping, international environmental agreements
- MeSH terms
- Africa, Computers, Conservation of Natural Resources, Electronics, Environmental Pollutants, Metals, Heavy
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