Success! Phillips make a recycling policy u-turn
A Greenpeace Europe update:
Last week we broke the shocking story about what actually happens to electronic waste in Europe; instead of being safely recycled in the UK or Europe where it is bought, much of it is instead being exported as ’second-hand goods’ to places like Nigeria, China and India. Once there it’s either sold for scrap, illegally dumped, or broken apart for recycling by some of the poorest people in the country, with no safety measures to protect them from the dangerous toxic chemicals like mercury, cadmium and lead which the e-waste contains.
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