Essays about: "e-waste workers"

Found 2 essays containing the words e-waste workers.

1. 1. Are we Going to Burn Everything? Agbogbloshie’s Informal E-waste Workers’ Perspectives

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

   Author : Mubarik Kassim Rabiu; [2018]
   Keywords : Agbogbloshie; e-waste; informal recycling; e-waste workers; human-environment system.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study engages with the informal e-waste sector, its financial, environmental and human health impacts as perceived by the e-waste workers. Although recovering resources from e-waste informally is useful to the financial needs of the workers, the rudimentary techniques employed are detrimental to the human-environment system. READ MORE

3. 2. From Europe, to the Agbogbloshie Scrapyard

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Strand Simon; [2018]
   Keywords : WEEE; e-waste; trade regulation; EU; Ghana;

   Abstract : The challenge of sound e-waste treatment is something that is a global concern when relating to good business practices, safe working conditions, information security and environment. This research applies a holistic view of the illegal trade of e-waste from Europe to Ghana by aiming to highlight some of its drivers. READ MORE