| History, Problems, and Progress in E Waste Recycling In-Country |
Around the year 2000, ships started to come in with e-waste in Agbogbloshie, also called “Sodom” in Ghana. There is a thriving hierarchical ecosystem of entrepreneurial activity in this country. Everything had its place. There were dedicated spaces for dismantling and handling different waste streams, repair and refurbishment activities and weighing scales.
Agbogbloshie, and sites like it elsewhere in the developing world, provide a valuable service. They offer opportunities for job creation, profit and cleaning up environments littered with waste. These activities also give discarded goods a new lease of life, encouraging second-hand markets in electronic and electrical goods while recognizing the skills associated with repair. |
| E-Wasters Services and Special Practices In-Country |
Currently, in Ghana, Green Advocacy Ghana initiated an incentive-based collection of e-waste. For now, Ghanaians dig through the e-waste dumb in search of waste cables and copper scraps. The initial incentive level for Cu-cables was set by adding a small service fee that compensates the suppliers for bringing the cables to the handover centre. This service fee was kept variable to allow the project to adjust the incentive level in case market reactions are below or above expectations. It was intended to start with a rather low incentive level and to increase that level during the course of the implementation if needed.
As scrap dealers in Old Fadama are used to trade cables and copper scrap in pounds, incentives were offered in GHS per pound (GHS/lb ). |
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