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Digital dumpsites: E-waste poses serious health threat to Pakistan
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Islamabad: Millions of phones, computers and electronic devices are dumped daily, creating a ‘tsunami of e-waste’, causing significant health risks and environmental pol-lution, experts have warned. Pakistan is among the 15 countries where large informal electronic-waste (e-waste) dismantling and recycling sites have been reported which is a major health hazard, ac-cording to the first WHO report on e-waste titled ‘Children and Digital Dumpsites’. Bra-zil, China and India are the three countries where e-waste recycling is most prominent and India was described as the “major importer and producer of e-waste.” The report calls for urgent action to protect the millions of children, adolescents

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