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# The Technology Dumping Ground
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2806/
- Published: 2005-10-24T12:17:29.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-24T12:17:29.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Technology, #wpChunk

There can be a downside to technology and foreign aid? I thought it was all rosy, all the time:

> \[A\] report \[to be released today\], titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa," says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold to developing nations by recycling businesses in the United States as a way to dodge the expense of having to recycle it properly. While the report, written by the Basel Action Network, based in Seattle, focuses on Nigeria, in western Africa, it says the situation is similar throughout much of the developing world.

> "Too often, justifications of 'building bridges over the digital divide' are used as excuses to obscure and ignore the fact that these bridges double as toxic waste pipelines," says the report. As a result, Nigeria and other developing nations are carrying a disproportionate burden of the world's toxic waste from technology products, according to Jim Puckett, coordinator of the group.

[*NY Times* Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/technology/24junk.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

[But the Nigerians appear to be using some of the machines](https://thedailyeudemon.com/2804/).