We chose to examine the Agbogbloshie dumpsite in the greater Accra region of Ghana for several reasons. Agbogbloshie was the first E-waste dump site that we became familiar with, having seen the documentary Terra Blight. We examined the site using Google Earth and determined that, though small, we could nonetheless use it to do a remote sensing study on E-waste.
However, we wanted to look at other E-waste dump sites to determine if there was a larger site we could study and/or compare to Agbogbloshie. The largest E-waste dump site in the world is Guiyu in China. However, as seen in the image of the dumpsite below, this site is too built up to be used in a remote sensing project. In this location, they literally built a village on the site to better process and disassemble the electronics.
The Seelampur dump site in India is another well known dump site, but it is even more built up and inaccessible than Guiyu, as can be seen below.
Sher Shan in Pakistan had the same problem (below).
Accordingly, we decided to focus our project on Agbogbloshie and not do comparisons to other E-waste dump sites as originally planned.
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