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Environmental Change (E-Waste (GHANA AGBOGBLOSHI - health consequences -…
Environmental Change
E-Waste
GHANA AGBOGBLOSHI - health consequences - breathing in toxins e.g. arsenic, lead
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Waste coming from Netherlands, UK and Norway
Toxins affect nervous system, immune system, brain and growth development in children
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Consequences
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improvement in infrastructure: transport links, electricity, gas and water provision
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Improved education, leisure and medical facilities
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Examples:
2006, Swiss - owned company, Trafigura, an oil trader dumped hundreds of thousands of tonnes of poisonous waste (including hydrogen sulphide) in the Ivory Coast it was illegal in Europe
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1984, American owned Union Carbide released toxic gas from its pesticide plant in Bhopal India, killing 16,000
The Basel Convention (1992) on the control of Transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and disposal