Global Junkyards? ~ Ghana (& China) Recycling...

Thanks to UniqueDaily for spotlighting this Reuters video on the Ghanaian waste recycling sector... What's waste to rich country consumers is raw material to Ghanaian junk processors who extract the valuable metals. The downside is the tremendous health impacts of this process -- e.g. hazardous chemicals, sharp metals, and dirty toxic burning and smelting methods of extraction. Earlier this year, Chris Carroll wrote in National Geographic about High-Tech Trash, also spotlighting this controversial trade... Sun Nov 16 Addendum: I just found this 60 Minutes story on The Electronic Wasteland by Scott Pelley about waste-handling practices in China... and in the USA. This is classic investigative reporting, with Pelley & crew rigorously documenting facts and then surprising-exposing the leader of a US recycling company in what appears to be a blatant lie. Ecopreneurist tells more of the backstory in their Greenwash Crisis Plan story. Watch the original 60 Minutes episode for yourself...