{"id":4399,"date":"2019-08-07T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"overcoming-nigerias-e-waste-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/07\/overcoming-nigerias-e-waste-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Nigeria\u2019s E-waste Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While international\nagreements like the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/resources\/report\/basel-convention-control-transboundary-movements-hazardous-wastes\">Basel\nConvention<\/a>&nbsp;prohibit\nthe import of hazardous waste, unscrupulous importers and a porous customs\nsystem mean Nigeria now ranks alongside Ghana as one of the world\u2019s leading\ndestinations for electronic waste. The country receives 71,000 tonnes of used\nconsumer goods through the two main ports in Lagos from the European Union and\nother more industrialized economies every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome\nof the e-waste from abroad is comprised of cathode-ray TVs, which contain lead,\nas well as refrigerators and air conditioners containing\nhydrochlorofluorocarbons, making it a threat to those who are dismantling and\ndealing with the products,\u201d the UN Environment Programme\u2019s Eloise Touni says.\nPlastic components, including hard casings and cables, also contain persistent\norganic pollutants used as flame retardants, such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/explore-topics\/chemicals-waste\/what-we-do\/persistent-organic-pollutants\/phasing-out-pbde\">polybrominated diphenyl ethers<\/a>(PBDE).\nThese were banned by the Stockholm Convention due to their long-lasting global\nimpacts and are regularly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/news\/weeklynews\/apr09\/pbde.html\">detected in ecosystems<\/a>&nbsp;and\npeople all over the world, including in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/grasshopper-effect-serves-pollutants-plates-arctic-peoples\">Arctic wildernesses and their\ntraditional inhabitants<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/dark-skies-bright-future-overcoming-nigerias-e-waste-epidemic\">full\narticle<\/a> on the UN Environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment While international agreements like the&nbsp;Basel Convention&nbsp;prohibit the import of hazardous waste, unscrupulous importers and a porous customs system mean Nigeria now ranks alongside Ghana as one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4400,"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-4399","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\/4399","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=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}