{"id":805993,"date":"2022-09-21T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/21\/children-as-young-as-nine-say-they-are-ill-from-work-recycling-plastic-in-turkey"},"modified":"2022-09-21T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T04:00:18","slug":"children-as-young-as-nine-say-they-are-ill-from-work-recycling-plastic-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/21\/children-as-young-as-nine-say-they-are-ill-from-work-recycling-plastic-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Children as young as nine say they are ill from work recycling plastic in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch says failure to enforce laws worsens health impact at centres, amid steep rise in EU and UK waste exports<\/p><p>Children as young as nine are working in plastic waste recycling centres in Turkey, putting them at risk of serious and lifelong health conditions, according to Human Rights Watch. <\/p><p>Workers including children, and people living in homes located \u201cdangerously close\u201d to the centres, told researchers they were suffering from respiratory problems, severe headaches and skin ailments.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/21\/children-as-young-as-nine-say-they-are-ill-from-work-recycling-plastic-in-turkey\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/21\/children-as-young-as-nine-say-they-are-ill-from-work-recycling-plastic-in-turkey\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch says failure to enforce laws worsens health impact at centres, amid steep rise in EU and UK waste exportsChildren as young as nine are working in plastic waste recycling centres in Turkey, putting them at risk of serious and lifelong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34496,393,52753,471,1322,1333,6,640,28214,686,7583,1320,1314,31599,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805994,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805993\/revisions\/805994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}