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COMMENTS: Heavy Metal
"For almost every country in the world it is illegal to send electronic waste to another country--but not the United States. The US is one of three nations that did not ratify a treaty banning the exportation of this kind of e-waste." ABC's Ron Claiborne was standing on a smoky trash heap in Accra, littered with old computers and discarded electronics that had been shipped from America to Ghana. Children scavenge the trash, setting fires to extract copper wire for resale. The smoke is thick with heavy metals, filling the boys' lungs and stunting their growth with lead, mercury and cadmium.
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