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Four comprehensive studies have found that 85%, 87%, 91%, or 93% is reused. The sea containers go to another part of town, where the geeks and technicians are. Agbogbloshie is mostly managing used scrap (cars, appliances, electronics) generated by the 4.5M inhabitants of Accra. Over half the households in Accra had television in 2003.

Links to Ghana specific studies here http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/06/21/231250/uk-man-senten...

These western descriptions of Agbogloshie are really becoming a farce. It's the scrap dump where African generate cars and old appliances go. It is not the repair hub. There are ZERO sea containers of Western e-junk showing up. NONE. The place handles less per day than the average e-waste processor in Indiana. The World Bank stats show that Accra has 4.5M residents, and the majority of households have had TV and computers for a decade. They buy used working electronics because the average income is under $3K. But it's obscene that environmentalists go to a dump and take pictures of kids and raise money and don't tell the truth about the waste origins and don't share any money with the kids. I'm going back at the end of the month. Just stop it people. (With all due respect, You too, Kyle). Your video says you saw no evidence of repair, it's the scrapyard it isn't where the repair is done and it isn't where the sea containers arrive.

And this has all been painstakingly documented in major reports!

http://www.basel.int/Portals/4/Basel%20Convention/docs/eWast...

http://www.basel.int/Portals/4/Basel%20Convention/docs/eWast...

And the original source of the statistic that it's the biggest e-waste dump in the world, junking 80%, made it up. Look!

http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2013/05/basel-action-network-...

This is environmental malpractice.