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Children and Digital Dumpsites report
June 22 , 2021
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- The new report, titled Children and Digital Dumpsites, was recently released by the WHO.
Highlights
- More than 18 million children and adolescents working at e-waste dumpsites in low and middle-income countries are potentially at the risk of severe health hazards.
- They face risk due to discarded electronic devices or e-waste being dumped from high-income countries.
- The processing is done in low-income countries, which do not have proper safeguarding regulation.
- Children are especially preferred at these dumpsites because of their small and dexterous hands.
- About 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste was generated in 2019.
- Only 17.4 per cent of this e-waste was processed in formal recycling facilities.
- The rest of it was dumped in low or middle-income countries for illegal processing by informal workers.
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