{"id":740153,"date":"2022-11-08T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740153"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:40:01","slug":"a-dumpsite-is-no-place-for-a-child-study-shows-nigerias-young-waste-pickers-are-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740153","title":{"rendered":"A dumpsite is no place for a child: Study shows Nigeria&#039;s young waste pickers are at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olusosun landfill sprawls across 100 acres (40ha) in Nigeria&#8217;s largest city, Lagos. Initially situated at the outskirts of the city, it is now at the city&#8217;s center due to urban encroachment. Olusosun is often described as Nigeria&#8217;s biggest landfill; it receives over one million tons of waste annually. Most of this is electronic waste (such as lamps, televisions and laptops), municipal solid waste and construction waste.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-dumpsite-child-nigeria-young-pickers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A dumpsite is no place for a child: Study shows Nigeria&#8217;s young waste pickers are at risk<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olusosun landfill sprawls across 100 acres (40ha) in Nigeria&#8217;s largest city, Lagos. Initially situated at the outskirts of the city, it is now at the city&#8217;s center due to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}