Talking about the world's largest nuclear pollution accident, I believe that many people will mention Chernobyl, due to a negligence of details, resulting in tens of thousands of people were exposed to radiation and lost their lives. Until now, it is highly contaminated radiation area, it can be said that the threat of radioactive contamination for human beings is really too great, but in the world there is such a region, y contaminated by radioactive substances, but every year there are still a large number of e-waste transported to this region, the local people not only do not stop, but also enjoy it, this is why?
The world's largest e-waste incinerator
This place is located in Ghana's Aboobo Rosie, Ghana is located in Africa's slums, the income level is very low, in order to ensure that the source of livelihood, Aboobo Rosie became the world's largest recycling site for electronic waste. Nowadays, electronic pollution has become an important part of the environmental change of the planet, and since 1992, various countries have been banning the shipment of electronic waste from developed countries to Aboobrosi, but after all these years, this behavior is still prohibited. For a poor region, the recycling of e-waste is their biggest source of income, and most of the people who work here are young people, but very few live past the age of 25.
40,000 people work here every year
Since recent technological advances, Aboobrosi has become a waste discharge for many developed countries. Every month Aboobrosi receives electronic waste from all over the world, but these electronic wastes no longer have much recycling value, because before being transported here, many developed countries have already recycled objects that can be recycled, and after arriving at Aboobrosi there is no longer anything worthwhile long ago, and in the large amount of electronic wastes, only 3% of the wastes can be recycled. Despite the very thin margins, more than 40,000 people still come to work here every year, and most of those who work in such a highly polluted environment are children and teenagers.
There is also a large amount of lead in the soil
Long time ago the electronic pollution is Aboobrosi long time in the radiation, such radiation is a great impact on human life, scientists once detected a high fraction of lead in the soil in Aboobrosi, these lead levels up to 100 times, if a short period of time exposure to the phenomenon of headache spasms, and they Exposed to lead radiation for long periods of time, very few of them live past the age of 25.
While the high radiation contamination is a great threat to life, they can't give up this opportunity to make money. In order to improve the situation, several countries have formulated relevant policies to strictly prohibit developed countries from discharging e-waste to Aberobosi, but such policies have not been effectively enforced, and certain developed countries will take e-waste as aid and discharge it to Aberobosi, and such initiatives still attract a large number of people to come here to work.
Today the plight of Aboobrosi touches the mood of many countries, some high-tech companies even hope that some kind of wire stripping machine can be invented to replace incineration, and if such a technology can be popularized, it will be a great blessing to the residents of Aboobrosi. What are everyone's thoughts on this situation?