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Ghana leaves secondhand fridges out in bid to save energy

2013-01-17 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Behind a once mint-coloured concrete wall now stained by red dust in a hilly suburb of Ghana's capital, Accra, a large machine is making history as it chugs and whirrs away. It is a mobile fridge degassing unit the first of its kind on the entire African continent, its owners say and it is sucking poisonous gases out of hundreds of Ghana's discarded secondhand fridges. The machine was imported from Germany by City Waste Management, a company specialising in the safe disposal of electronic...

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