A little conflicted on this one - shouldnt the solution be not sending waste to africa and picking up the mess we left behind? And isn't it problematic to set u

A little conflicted on this one - shouldnt the solution be not sending waste to africa and picking up the mess we left behind? And isn't it problematic to set up an economy based on the availability of illegally dumped electronics? Not in a moral sense but a practical one. And as I understand it most e waste reclamation is taxing work that exposes you to various nasty things, either picking for salvage or extracting metals. I think those are really just quibbles though. In the first place that org has boots on the ground and I'm just some rando on a different continent, easy for me to spout off about problems when I'm not involved and trying to fix a problem. In the second place much of the focus in that article was about a repair program for the solar lights they are introducing to rural communities, which is phenomenal, and does qualify as recycling e waste. Maybe I'm laboring under a different idea of what constitutes electronics waste? I don't think of most of it as being repairable, perhaps I'm just wrong about that.