Asia-Pacific daily is integrated Gu Yue
Defend a newspaper to reported on April 24 according to England, european country exports the electronic rubbish of Ghana illegally, the toxic substance that releases is polluting local food chain quickly.
According to the report, the analytic report after group of two groups of environmental protection makes an on-the-spot investigation to place shows, what Luo Xi of cloth of rich of Ghana capital A contains in an egg of a civilian hole 2 evil flower with benzene of much more chloric couplet it is European food security bureau 220 times what set a standard!
Besides, the degree of other and toxic chemical exceeding bid in the egg also with likewise astonishing, although these harmful material also have very high toxicity and harm sex below very small chroma, the food health state that this allows people to be able to 't help beginning to worry about African people.
And respecting culprit, must carry come from the west the electronic rubbish of each countries.
Luo Xi of cloth of Ghana A rich is the electronic Tophet with famous whole world, also be one of areas with global the most serious pollution. Annual, the many shabby television of western developed country, computer, microwave oven and freezer can export here illegally to undertake handling.
Abobuluoxi is burning everyday processing abandons old electronic product, qing Dynasty gets rid of plastic, get a few metals that can reclaim and sell here. And a little useless old home appliance even leak is poisonous element, wait like lead and mercury, make the pollution of this area more and more serious.
In Abobuluoxi " deadly ground " , saw with one's own eyes of cameraman Yepoka Yeebo sees the youth is in poisonous aerosol and the home appliance that can explode the job. Yeebo says, more terrible is, the toxic substance that these electronic rubbish discharge show has sadded the air that silence ground polluted place and water, it is the fruit on terminal market and vegetable even.
Ghana imports rubbish of electron of 210 thousand 5 kiloton every year from abroad, majority comes from Europe, and these rubbish great majority are handled in Abobuluoxi. People the metal in rubbish (it is copper and aluminium more) after extraction comes out, abandon the thing that leave next, make the pollution of this area more and more serious.
The field of electronic rubbish processing that Kevin Bridgen of member of panel of green peace science once had visited Ghana. He says: "The chemical material that releases in electronic rubbish processing is high toxicity for the most part, a few meetings affect development of children head ministry and neurological growth. In Ghana, workers are exposed basically completely in dangerous and chemical content. In these workers, having is children partly quite. Having is children partly quite..
Long-term electronic rubbish is primitive the surroundings that tears open solution to let local not only is more and more abominable, also become the direct matter of a lot of diseases. A lot of local people die early many years old 20 because of the disease such as cancer.
In fact, ghana is an epitome of the rubbish pollution current situation with African astonishing electron only, major nation is sufferring Africa nowadays the worry that electronic rubbish pollution brings. Africa is making the dump land of rubbish of developed country electron.
According to statistic, annual the whole world arises 20 million to rubbish of 50 million tons of electrons. Among them 80% Africa be been in by dump and Asian area. Increase as what Asian country superintends strength, more electron rubbish emerges to African mainland.
These developed countries often are playing donative banner, carry to Africa secondhand computer, the result has 1/4 to cannot be used at all at least among them, can be filled finally to bury only. The problem is the most serious should belong to Nigeria. Have about 500 container every months, 100 thousand secondhand computer transfers Lagesi harbor, it is the electronic rubbish of be worthy of the name largely among them. To get the precious heavy metal in equipment of useless old electron, local dismantles equipment directly broken, expose oneself completely in electronic pollution, cause groundwater to be polluted, make food chain also is affected badly.
A reporter that makes an on-the-spot investigation to Africa is written so, "Although our civilization is in,progress, but the kind that we serve earthly home and human companion is crueler and crueler however. Because we are right the earth and congener ignore, we are polluting our air, land, river, poison our him mankind even. Poison our him mankind even..
