Africa: e-waste recycling - How to approach the subject systematically

The dumping of old PCs in Africa is a flourishing trade. Recycling in industrial countries is quite expensive, and this has made disposing of European and American scrap in African lands a lucrative activity for many racketeers. Despite the Basel Convention’s prohibition of international waste transfer, untold numbers of containers stuffed with old computers and components are shipped to the Continent daily – with the majority unfit for service and thus destined for dumping alleys, rivers or rubbish heaps.