Agbogbloshie

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Agbogbloshie is the nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city. Close to the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site has become known as a destination for externally generated automobile and electronic scrap collected mostly from the Western world. It is a center of a legal and illegal exportation network for the environmental dumping of electronic waste from industrialized nations. The Basel Action Network, a charitable non-governmental organization based in Seattle, has referred to Agbogbloshie as a "digital dumping ground", where millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year. Roughly 40,000 Ghanaians inhabit the area, most of whom are migrants from rural areas. Due to its harsh living conditions and rampant crime, the area has been nicknamed "Sodom and Gomorrah". The Basel Convention prevents the cross-border shipment of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries. However, under...

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