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Blain wright okanagan mission secondary school 4544 gordon drive kelowna, bc v1w 1t4 ph. For tons of ewaste annually, the last stop is one of the most polluted places on earth. Ghana has become one of the worlds digital dumping grounds, where the wests electronic waste piles up hundreds of millions of tons of it every year. The town of agbogbloshie in the west african country of ghana has been called a digital dumping ground. Digital dumping ground video ewaste movie who is dying for your ipad, the truth of ewaste part 2 thinking, planning and decision making as a team, fill out the what we know about e. Frontlineworld presents a global investigation into the dirty secret of the digital age the dumping of hundreds of millions of pounds of electronic waste around. Digital dumping ground pbs documentary the story of electronics. Ghana, digital dumping ground just a few miles from hong kongs port, hidden behind eightfoothigh corrugated walls, are mountains of computer monitors, printer cartridges from.
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