When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...
A man in Uttarakhand, India, feeds circuit boards into a shredder in a photo dated Jan. 29, 2021. (Image: Shutterstock) The hardware powering chatbots could increase electronic trash by a thousand ...
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge ...