Electronic gadgets: less EU dumping in Africa

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament on Thursday (20 January) said the EU should toughen-up a new law aimed at reducing the mountains of discarded electronic gadgets from Europe that end up in landfills and dumps in developing countries.

Around 40 percent of the scrap ends up in the African country's Agbogbloshie dumpsite where thousands of people - including children - rummage through it to extract small amounts of valuable components like silver, gold, palladium, copper and indium.

The new law aimed to tackle this problem by setting collection targets for electronic equipments, enabling most of those to be recovered and recycled by EU member states. Thus, reducing the amount of dangerous material and sustance to be deserted on the African continent.

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