29 Most Toxic Places On Earth

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Agbogbloshie, Ghana

Source: http://greatforest.com/

This commercial district in Ghana is known as the second largest e-waste landfill in West Africa. It’s called the digital dumping ground where tons of electronic waste are broken down and processed each year, and the inhabitants live, eat, relieve themselves, and work in the toxic junkyard. The people working in the recycling trade, burning cables and electronics to recover metals and copper, are exposed to serious health and safety risks. Burning and processing of e-waste emits harmful chemicals into the ground, water, and atmosphere, and poisons such as arsenic, dioxins, furans, lead, and mercury severely pollute the terrain. Even chicken eggs have been found contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls. The ceaseless burning of plastic coverings brought about high levels of lead in soil, posing serious risks to children and workers, most of which die young from cancer and respiratory problems.