How researchers are working to help mitigate the effects of toxic pollution at Agbogbloshie, a notorious dump for the world’s e-waste.
In the middle of Accra, the capital of Ghana, sits Agbogbloshie, one of the largest and oldest electronic waste recycling sites in Africa. The eight-hectare scrapyard takes in used electronics from Europe, the United States, India and China, which workers disassemble to recover reusable parts or valuable metals, such as the copper inside wires and cables, for recycling. Read more in Canadian Geographic.