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Agbogbloshie has become one of the world's digital dumping grounds, where the
West's electronic waste, or e-waste, piles up -- hundreds of millions of tons of
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“Life is really difficult; they eat here, surrounded by e-waste,” Anane tells
them. “They basically are here to earn a living. But you can imagine the health
implications.” - 4 more annotations...
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“Some are from Germany and the U.K., and also from America,” he says, when asked
where the equipment has come from. He sorts through them looking for working
electronics that can be sold. He says that maybe 50 percent of the shipment is
junk and the rest he will be able to salvage in some way. -
As part of the investigation, one of the students buys a number of hard
drives to see what is on them, secretly filming the transaction to avoid the
seller's suspicions.The drives are purchased for the equivalent of US$35.
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Just a few miles from Hong Kong’s port, hidden behind eight-foot-high
corrugated walls, are mountains of computer monitors, printer cartridges from
Georgia, relics of old video arcades…
In China, e-waste has become big
business.The southern Chinese city of Guiyu has been completely built around the
e-waste trade. Miles and miles of nothing but old electronics. -
The man explains how hundreds of thousands of tons of American e-waste makes
its way into China, despite laws intended to stop it.
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“Life is really difficult; they eat here, surrounded by e-waste,” Anane tells them. “They basically are here to earn a living. But you can imagine the health implications.”
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“Some are from Germany and the U.K., and also from America,” he says, when asked where the equipment has come from. He sorts through them looking for working electronics that can be sold. He says that maybe 50 percent of the shipment is junk and the rest he will be able to salvage in some way.
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26 Jun 09
Karl WabstFrontline video on eWaste, Computer Security
On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.
Correspondent Peter Klein and a group of graduate journalism students from the University of British Columbia have come here as part of a global investigation -- to track a shadowy industry that's causing big problems here and around the world.
Their guide is a 13-year-old boy named Alex. He shows them his home, a small room in a mass of shanty dwellings, and offers to take them across a dead river to a notorious area called Agbogbloshie. -
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Amy CadeA video which aired 6-23-09 on PBS Frontline/World.
On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.Ghana E-Waste electronics electronic waste computers digital dumping ground PBS Frontline
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