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Agbogbloshie: Ghana's 'trash world' may be an eyesore - but it's no dump

Rams, Dagna
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2959811/agbogbloshie_ghanas_trash_world_may_be_an_eyesore_but_its_no_dump.html

Publisher:  The Ecologist
Date Written:  10/08/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation that pays for the wastes it receives, employs thousands of young men who would otherwise lack jobs, and plays a huge role in the national and global economy.

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