Bolivia to join electronic waste recycling venture
Bolivia to join electronic waste recycling venture
Published: Aug. 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Bolivia is following Chile's lead in welcoming international investment in a new electronic waste recycling business in the country.
Latin America is rated as the next growth area globally for electronic waste recycling, also called urban mining. Recent business studies showed the entire Caribbean, Central and South American expanse has potential to find a new revenue source in e-waste recycling.
Increased e-waste recycling is set to raise the profile of countries where the recycling of business, household and industrial detritus until recently was a meager occupation for impoverished children and adults subsisting on the fringes of society.
Chile pioneered e-waste recycling by organizing an age-old infrastructure of freelance e-waste collectors in urban areas into a viable business working in tandem with international buyers of reprocessed metals. Now it's Bolivia's turn to rework the model for its own ends.
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