Agbogbloshie
thumb|upright=1.5|Ghanaians working in Agbogbloshie
Key facts
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- Agbogbloshie
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- Town
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- Ghana
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- bottom
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- Location of Agbogbloshie, Ghana in Greater Accra Region
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- Country
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- Region
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- Greater Accra Region
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- District
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- Korle-Klottey Municipal District
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- Religions
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- GMT
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Background
- Economy
- Living conditions
- Pollution
- Human health risks
- Information security
- Restoration efforts
- References in popular culture
- Demolition
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|Ghanaians working in Agbogbloshie
Agbogbloshie is the nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city in the Greater Accra region. Near the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site became known as a destination for externally generated automobile and electronic scrap collected from mostly the Western world. It was a center of a legal and illegal exportation network for the environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations. The Basel Action Network (BAN), a charitable non-governmental organization based in Seattle, has referred to Agbogbloshie as a "digital dumping ground", where millions of tons of e-waste were processed each year.