The government has been asked to strengthen environmental legislation to prohibit the dumping of hazardous materials, such as electronic waste, in the country. Additionally, the international community must be made to enforce regulations that prohibit exportation of such materials to developing countries including Ghana because of their toxicity and health implications... [Environmental journalist] Mike Anane...said Greenpeace analysis of soil and sediment taken from Agbogbloshie market and from the Koforidua electronic waste scrap yards have revealed severe contamination from toxic metals... The contamination is caused by metals that are released into the soil when scrap dealers dismantle and burn discarded computers and television sets... He also called on manufacturers like Philips, Sharp, Canon, Dell, Microsoft, Nokia, Siemens, Hewlett Packard [HP], Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Acer, Apple, IBM, Panasonic [part of Matsushita] and Toshiba to foot the bill on the toxic clean up at Agbogbloshie, and to set up collection points throughout Ghana for their obsolete and discarded products.