{"id":8121,"date":"2020-02-18T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"africas-growing-lead-battery-industry-is-causing-extensive-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/18\/africas-growing-lead-battery-industry-is-causing-extensive-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Growing Lead Battery Industry Is Causing Extensive Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Faridah Hussein Were<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa is facing a serious lead poisoning problem. In Senegal, for example, researchers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2897224\/\">linked the deaths<\/a>&nbsp;of children from processing lead waste to supply a lead battery recycling plant in a poor suburb of Dakar. Villagers supply lead waste to the plant for compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/reporting\/woman-risking-her-life-save-village-lead-poisoning\">Kenya<\/a>, the legacy of a shutdown lead-recycling plant is causing major health problems for people living in the neighbourhood. And in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/businessday-investigation\/businessday-investigation-f\/article\/dying-in-instalments-how-lead-battery-recyclers-are-poisoning-nigerians-part-i\/\">Nigeria<\/a>&nbsp;an investigation by journalists showed how lead battery recycling facilities were poisoning workers and the people living in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is growing along with the market for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/259447\/9789241512855-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">lead batteries<\/a>. This is due to lack of regulation and investment in environmentally sound battery recycling plants. Most facilities in Africa are small.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/africas-growing-lead-battery-industry-is-causing-extensive-contamination-130899\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faridah Hussein Were Africa is facing a serious lead poisoning problem. In Senegal, for example, researchers&nbsp;linked the deaths&nbsp;of children from processing lead waste to supply a lead battery recycling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8122,"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-8121","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\/8121","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=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}