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E-waste workers are paid as little as 1.50 US dollars per day for unprotected work with toxics that make them sick.
Many end up in e-waste sites in Asia and Africa. Computers found in these sites come from Australia, Japan, England, USA, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Denmark. Well…from all over the world!
Workers dismantle the electronics by hand and remove materials that have value. Chemicals are often used to separate the various materials. The useless parts are burned.
Investigators from Toxics Link was inspecting a typical e-waste site in India. They became dizzy within just 1 hour of breathing the heavy air pollution. But this is not all…
The workers at these e-waste sites work long hours and are completely unaware of the toxics that surround them. In most cases, the only thing they have to “protect” them from the toxic fumes are portable household fans. Many are children.
Solutions include electronic products without toxics that are designed for upgrade, reuse, and recycling. “Extended producer responsibility” / “take back” implies that producers take responsibility for the whole life-cycle of their products.
According to the Basel Action Network, e-waste workers earn as little as 1.50 US dollars a day giving them an annual income of about 550 dollars.
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