Poverty forces Roma people to scavenge toxic e-waste

7th St e-Waste Image by greenbk E-waste recycling weekend, Park Slope, 3/31/07 Poverty forces Roma people to scavenge toxic e-waste Roma communities in France, currently the subject of a controversial crackdown by the Sarkozy administration, are being forced to scavenge growing volumes of potentially dangerous e-waste in a bid to escape poverty, an Ecologist investigation […]

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