what had been an ad hoc development project quickly devolved into a scheme for companies in the west to cheaply dump dangerous garbage into illequipped and extraordinarily poor rural villages by sending unregulated shipping containers marked donations as a means to get around national regulations as a result of this unregulated dumping agbogbloshies soil and water have high concentrations of lead mercury thallium hydrogen cyanide and pvc thus it is often cheaper to ship outdated and damaged computers to developing countries under the donation label than to recycle the electronics properly however as the agbogbloshie case illustrates the development of an effective ewaste strategy cannot be complete without appreciating the policy and regulatory governance frameworks that exist at the global regional and local levels efforts must be made to ensure that the enforcement and compliance aspects of these policy and regulatory frameworks complement each other