Results 1 to 10 of about 584 (163)

Cognitive Functions Among Pupils in Schools Near and Around an Electronic Waste Recycling Site at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana [PDF]

Toxics
Background: Electronic waste (e-waste) recycling in informal settings like Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, releases toxic metals into the environment, posing serious health risks to nearby residents, particularly children.
Afua Asabea Amoabeng Nti, Serwaa Akoto Bawua, Ibrahim Issah   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

From the Cloud to the Landfill: The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform and Akwasi Bediako Afrane’s TRONS [PDF]

Diseña, 2023
This contribution sheds light on discarded electronics repair in Accra, Ghana. After placing these practices in dialogue with the Western and Eurocentric narratives around the materiality of digital interactions and infrastructure, it delves into two ...
Cyrus Khalatbari
doaj   +12 more sources

Health hazards resulting from the WEEE combustion at illegal e-waste yards in developing countries on the example of Agbogbloshie [PDF]

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Developing countries do not have legal regulations and adequate infrastructure to safely store and dispose of rubbish therefore in those places waste disposal usually involves burrying or burning.
Ewa Zieliński, Adriana Wielgus, Katarzyna Sas, Walery Zukow   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

North-South Migration and Problems of Migrant Traders in Agbogbloshie

African Human Mobility Review, 2021
In this paper, the problems of labour migrants in their destination areas will be investigated, owing to the need for a deeper understanding of their specific livelihood problems in these areas.
Razak Jaha Imoro
doaj   +3 more sources

Health hazards resulting from exposure to heavy metals generated during the incineration of electronic and electrical waste in developing countries on the example of Agbogbloshie [PDF]

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Combustion of electro-waste is one of the basic methods of e-waste processing in developing countries. When burning mobile phones, computers, TVs, cables and household appliances, toxic fumes containing acid gases, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),
Ewa Zieliński, Adriana Wielgus, Katarzyna Sas, Walery Zukow   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus circulation by environmental surveillance in the absence of clinical cases [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Background On August 25, 2019, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research notified the confirmation of a circulating-vaccine-derived poliovirus type-2 (cVDPV2) from the Agbogbloshie environmental surveillance (AES) site, in the Greater Accra ...
John Kofi Odoom, Evangeline Obodai, Gifty Boateng, Stanley Diamenu, Keren Attiku, Patrick Avevor, Ewurabena Duker, Bismarck Boahene, Miriam Eshun, Emmanuel Gberbie, Joseph Kwadwo Larbi Opare   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Health threats resulting from soil and groundwater contamination in e-dumps on the Agbogbloshie example

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Rapid economic growth, an increasing urbanization and globalization caused increasing of consumption and production of e-waste. The biggest e-waste yards are located in developing countries, most of them nearby of big cities with a large population ...
Ewa Zieliński, Adriana Wielgus, Katarzyna Sas, Walery Zukow   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Cuerpos, toxinas e intervenciones laborales con residuos electrónicos en Ghana: ¿Hacia una corporalidad poscolonial tóxica? [PDF]

Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2019
Este artículo explora la experiencia vivida de los trabajadores de residuos electrónicos (e-waste) en Agbogbloshie, un centro primario de reciclaje de desechos electrónicos y un mercado de chatarra en Accra, Ghana, que ha sido descrito como uno de los ...
Peter C. Little
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial assessment of potential ecological risk of heavy metals in soils from informal e-waste recycling in Ghana [PDF]

Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2017
The rapidly increasing annual global volume of e-waste, and of its inherently valuable fraction, has created an opportunity for individuals in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana to make a living by using unconventional, uncontrolled, primitive and crude ...
Vincent Nartey Kyere, Klaus Greve, Sampson Manukure Atiemo, James Ephraim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paisajes tóxicos: una reflexión sobre las espacialidades del Antropoceno

Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2022
Este artículo explora los paisajes tóxicos y su importancia a la luz del Antropoceno. Comienza proponiendo el concepto de paisaje híbrido como sustituto del de paisaje cultural.
Catalina Giraldo Villamizar, Eduardo Brito-Henriques   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source