{"id":11733,"date":"2020-12-04T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11733"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:21","slug":"toxic-waste-dumping-in-the-gulf-of-guinea-amounts-to-environmental-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/12\/04\/toxic-waste-dumping-in-the-gulf-of-guinea-amounts-to-environmental-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic waste dumping in the Gulf of Guinea amounts to environmental racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toxic waste and electronic waste (e-waste) is generated from a wide range of industries – such as health, hydrocarbon or manufacturing – and can come in many forms, such as sludges or gas. E-waste<\/a> is used electronic items that are nearing the end of their useful life, and are discarded or given to be recycled. If these types of waste aren’t properly discarded they can cause<\/a> serious harm to human health and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes the proper disposal of toxic and e-waste expensive<\/a>. Because of this a market has been created and some companies and independent waste brokers circumvent laws. They disguise toxic waste as unharmful<\/a> and e-waste as reusable electronics<\/a>. It is then exported to countries in West and Central Africa where it is often disposed of unethically at dump-sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0our recent paper<\/a>, we show how Western companies and businesses (primarily those in Europe and the US) target countries in the Gulf of Guinea – we covered Nigeria, Ghana, and C\u00f4te d’Ivoire – as a dump for their toxic waste. This, despite the knowledge of the physiological and environmental effects of this waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These African countries\u00a0do not<\/a>\u00a0have the facilities to enable the safe disposal of hazardous and toxic waste. And the true contents of the waste are\u00a0almost<\/a>\u00a0always<\/a>\u00a0unknown to them. Exporters label\u00a0unsalvageable electronic goods as reusable<\/a>. This allows them to circumvent international laws which\u00a0prohibit the transboundary transport of this\u00a0waste. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toxic waste and electronic waste (e-waste) is generated from a wide range of industries – such as health, hydrocarbon or manufacturing – and can come in many forms, such as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}