4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Shiona McCallum reports from Kenya on ways people there are tackling e-waste and helping to recycle electronic products. It is one of the fastest growing streams of waste, with an estimated 50 million tonnes produced globally every year. Also in this episode Alasdair Keane has been finding out about a project to make the internet available in more languages and we hear about a community in India using step trackers to campaign for better sanitation.
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1:01.5 | technology is impacting your life. I'm Shona McCallum, and for this week's episode, I've been |
1:07.0 | in Kenya, meeting some of those finding ways to tackle electronic waste. |
1:12.1 | Hi, TechLife from Nairobi, Kenya. |
1:15.0 | We're at a very exciting point right now with the discussion around climate change |
1:19.2 | and the awareness around waste management. |
1:22.6 | It is wrong to throw electronic equipment to the environment |
1:26.7 | because some of these substances are toxic. |
1:29.0 | So what can we do about electric waste ourselves? We'll speak to the environmental agency in Norway, |
1:35.2 | a country generating one of the biggest rates of e-waste per person. Also coming up in this episode, |
1:41.4 | we'll hear about a project to make the internet more accessible |
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