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Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention in Bali on Tuesday. "Therefore, the issue of waste from dumped mobiles phones is significant due to sheer quantity globally .... What is going on in the world today is people just take valuable things from the used mobile phones," he said....
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