Children also have less agency than adults and do not choose where they live or, especially when they are very young, how much time they spend indoors or at their parent’s workplaces, where toxicants may be at high concentration.
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针对电子废物，我们可以做些什么？
What can be doneaboute-waste?
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为应对非正规废物处理带来的健康威胁，联合国机构和独立专家呼吁对不当回收的电子废物采取更有力的行动。
In response to the health threats informal waste disposal poses, UN agencies and independent experts have called for stronger action on improperly recycled e-waste.
This means effective and binding action by exporters, importers and governments that: ensure health and safety of e-waste workers, children, their families and communities with systems that train and protect workers, that monitor exposures and health outcomes, and that make protecting children the highest policy priority; enforce sound environmental health practices for disposal, recapture and reuse of materials; shift towards a circular economy by manufacturing more-durable electronics and electrical equipment, using safer and less-toxic materials, and encouraging sustainable consumption to reduce e-waste — as opposed to current trend of increasing turnover; manage e-waste by prioritizing health and environmental protection throughout the life cycle, with reference to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, appropriate regional conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals on waste management; eliminate child labour and incorporate adult e-wastes workers into the formal economy with decent conditions across the value chain of collection, processing/recycling and resale by incorporating informal workers in the formal economy.
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实施有效环境卫生实践， 对材料进行处置、征收和重复使用；
There are economic and environmental imperatives involved, too : better recycling presents opportunities for increased income and decreased demand for new materials.
The health sector can provide leadership and advocacy on e-waste initiatives and contribute to multi-sectoral action by reaching out to other sectors to demand that health concerns, particularly those of children, be made central to e-waste policies.
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这也涉及经济和环境方面的需要： 更好地回收利用为增加收入和减少对新材料的需求提供了机会。
Opportunities for leadership and collaboration include: regional and national capacity-building for health-based assessment of e-waste policies and regulations, particularly regarding children’s health; raising awareness of e-waste health risks and encouraging responsible recycling with policy-makers, communities, waste workers and their families; building health sector capacity to diagnose, monitor and prevent toxic exposures within primary health care services for children and women; pursuing better data and further research about women and children involved with e-waste, as well as studies about implementation and effectiveness of protective measures.