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Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s largest e-waste recycling hub has opened in which of the following cities? Notes: The world’s largest e-waste recycling facility has recently opened at the Dubai Industrial Park in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on an area of 280,000 square feet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agbogbloshie, an area in Ghana’s capital, Accra, is the largest e-waste dumpsite in the world. It’s nicknamed Sodom for the open fires used to extract metal from old electronics. Some 250,000 tons of electronics, appliances and the like are sent there every year.

Detailed explanation-3: -References in popular culture Agbogbloshie is a former wetland, which is now home to one of the world’s largest electronic waste dumps. Here, young men and boys smash and burn electronic devices to salvage the metals inside them".

Detailed explanation-4: -Guiyu (Chinese: ), in Guangdong Province, China, is widely perceived as the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site in the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Electronic Recyclers International, Inc. (ERI) is a leading global provider of waste management solutions for end-of-life electronic devices. The company has eight certified facilities in the U.S. with the capacity of recycling more than 1 billion pounds of electronic devices annually.