Where are WEEE in Africa?

Electronics Goes Green 2012+, ECG 2012 - Joint International Conference and Exhibition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schluep, Mathias ^a   Terekhova, Tatiana ^b   Manhart, Andreas ^c   Muller, Esther ^a   Rochat, David ^d   Osibanjo, Oladele ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Secretariat of the Basel Convention   (Switzerland)

^c Oeko Institut eV Institute for Applied Ecology   (Germany)

^d SOFIES SA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEL CONVENTION; DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION; E-WASTE; ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HUMAN HEALTH; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; NIGERIA; WEST AFRICA;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXHIBITIONS;

WASTES;

EID: 84871830250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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