Computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched a project to help local African enterprises perform safer and more effective electronic waste recycling. The project, in association with the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) and the Swiss…
The Nairobi slum where 12-year-old Priscilla grew up abuts one of Africa’s largest dumpsites. Now her blood is charged with lead, as electronic waste from the world over piles up unchecked. “Every time the dump…
By Joseph LaDou and Sandra Lovegrove from the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at University of California School of MedicineThe near absence of effective regulation and enforcement to control the flow of e-waste is…
