Hello All ,
I think am enyoing the disscussion going here well i would say that as
E-waste Research felow for WCE i think that we need to understand the
concept here before we beging to misundserstand our selves on the issue of E
waste in Ghana.
What has to be done with the Recycling o fcomputers? How do we reduce
the Metals that lead to the Toxic substance, the if we get the answer to
that i think that Greenpeace hgas teh right answer to that , so let firt o
fall understand the concept of E -Waste in Ghana.
Thanks
On 8/14/08, arthur richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I cannot see how this is going to be beneficial to an african country when
> the cost of repair is often as high or higher than the cost of buying a new
> PC of the same quality or higher quality!
> By the time that PC hits any african city or school, the cost of shipping
> and repairing it
> outstrips the cost of buying a new equivalent PC! Why don't they instead
> buy an equivalent new PC and send to these countries? The answer is obvious.
>
> Johnson
>
> --- On Tue, 12/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana
> To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <
> digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net>
> Received: Tuesday, 12 August, 2008, 12:46 PM
>
> hi Kwame
>
> on the upside, it can be an opportunity for ghana
>
> a lot of organizations have already written how to recycle pc's and other
> ict equipment
>
> the hardest part is to find buyers for the segregated pc parts
>
> china and india are prospects with their new appetites for metals
>
> surplus ict equipment (and other surplus materials) from the developed
> countries are really opportunities for developing countries
>
> in this case for school children
>
> just the right mindset and procedures need to be implemented
>
> reduce-reuse-repair-recycle
>
> regards
>
> rene
> y3k foundation
>
>
>
>
> > Denizens:
> > I brought this issue up several years ago (about 10yrs). I was berated by
> > another person
> > who accused me of crying wolf and rather preventing some poor school
> > children in Africa
> > from receiving free computers donated by "philanthropist". I
> tried to go
> > to
> > the archives to
> > retrieve that thread but I can only go to 2001.
> >
> > This is a growing menace to African society where under the guise of
> > donating computers,
> > Africans rather end up being a "dump site".
> >
> > we are still watching,
> > stay strong,
> > KDD
> >
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544003.stm
> >
> > Greenpeace says it is concerned about the electronic waste trade in Ghana
> > which it claims is putting
> > the health of workers at risk. The campaign group says the dismantling of
> > discarded computers on
> > rubbish tips exposes people to smoke and chemicals.
> >
> > Will Ross reports from Accra in Ghana.
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