This or similar propaganda and demagoguery has been repeated frequently over the past 20-30 years or so. Western companies dumping toxic waste on developing countries!
How difficult has it become to recycle e.g. lead in Western countries given environmental protection laws etc.
Why is it more expensive to recycle in Western countries than elsewhere?
If Western countries want to recycle e.g. lead they also have to provide conditions to make it possible in Western countries!
Why do African countries allow this kind of recycling?
"American car companies have long relied on recycled lead for batteries. But the process of recycling is steadily poisoning the communities working and living around the factories throughout Africa.
Children near one factory cluster outside Lagos, Nigeria, had lead levels that could cause lifelong brain damage, per testing commissioned for an investigation.
Automakers were aware of the lead pollution for nearly 30 years, The Examination and The New York Times report.
Repeatedly, they and battery companies opted not to act when warned of the dangers—excluding lead from environmental policies and blocking advocates’ attempts to intervene. ..."
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