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Toxic 'e-waste' dumped in Africa harming children
Broken computers and electronics from Britain are being shipped as "reusable" to Africa, only to be dumped on rubbish tips where they harm children's health, Greenpeace has said...Monitors, computers, television sets and printers are loaded into containers and sent to be crushed and burned by unprotected workers, some as young as five...Greenpeace discovered that unscrupulous traders buy bulk lots of working and obsolete machines from unwitting organisations in Europe and send them to Africa falsely labelled as "second hand".