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857-66681 - Burning of computer wire and parts to recover copper and other metals in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana. Poor workers often from the northern poorer region of Ghana do the work and sell the copper to buyers who send the copper to China or India.
857-66712 - Yinka Ogunsuyi teaches a computer class to 9-11 year olds from the Regency School in Lagos, Nigeria. He gets the computers from a contact in the USA and also buys some in Nigeria. The computer is a Pentium 3 Dell from the USA. Also at the school 2-3 year olds watch the movie "Happy Feat" on a Pentium 4 computer.
857-66699 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.
857-66739 - A village named Muftaffabad Loni on the outskirts of New Delhi, India that specializes in recycling circuit boards from electronics. The boards are taken out of electronics in other areas of New Delhi. Some of the boards are burned, some are dipped in sulfuric acid to get the metals separated from the plastics.
857-66708 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66702 - At the Alaba Market in Lagos Nigeria many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.
857-66717 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria.
857-66713 - Yinka Ogunsuyi teaches a computer class to 9-11 year olds from the Regency School in Lagos, Nigeria. He gets the computers from a contact in the USA and also buys some in Nigeria. The computer is a Pentium 3 Dell from the USA. Also at the school 2-3 year olds watch the movie "Happy Feat" on a Pentium 4 computer.
857-66715 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria.
857-66634 - At CRT Recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts, German Pantoja stands with TVs that he selected and are put in a sea container for shipment to Venezuela, where they will be repaired and sold as used TVs.
857-66661 - The Mueller-Guttenbrunn Metal Recycling facility in Amstetten, Austria. This is where electronics goods as well as cars and other appliances are sent for recycling under the European Waste Electrics Electronics Equipment (WEEE) Initiative. All electronics goods must be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.
857-66662 - Electronics recycling facility Metran in Kematen, Austria is where metals and plastics are sorted after the waste is first shredded at Mueller-Guttenbrunn in Amstetten. At a shake table the waste is separated by friction as hard items drop through first because they have less friction. The drum turns and small objects drop through the holes. Large piles of e-waste plastics objects and circuit boards. Avci Bilal walks atop a pile of e-waste that is waiting to be processed at Metran.
857-66624 - Home electronics collection day in Stamford, Connecticut is sponsored by Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA). Local residents can bring in old electronics for free collection. The equipment is sent to Amandi who pays about 20 cents a pound to recycle the electronics.
857-66644 - Taicang Port Imported Recyclable Resources Processing Zone, near Shanghai, China. This is a development project of the government to encourage business in recycling of metals and plastics, some of which comes from electronics.
857-66707 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66704 - Workers unload televisions at the Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the electronics here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66711 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66744 - Electronics recycler Global Investment Recovery facility in Salley, South Carolina. The building was formally the Salley Manufacturing Plant, an apparel company that closed and moved operations to Honduras leaving about 100 people out of work. Global Investment Recovery refurbished the building and stated a state-of-the-art electronics recycling operation. They process all of the South Carolina government e-scrap for 21 cents a pound. Scott Dillon cleaning processors, most of which will be sold for reuse. On the right side is hard drives that are wiped 7 times and will be resold. Terry Davis shrink wraps monitors, most of which will be sent overseas for reuse.
857-66709 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66698 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.
857-66714 - A computer training institute in Lagos, Nigeria. The Pentium 2 computers were bought second hand in Nigeria and there are about 16 computers at this location. Students are learning various software programs including typing, Microsoft word and a drawing program. One student in the striped shirt is Alice Itodo.
857-66658 - Seven workers are disassembling computers at TES-AMM Shanghai, which was founded on September 21, 2005, currently has 67 employees of which 26 are workers. With an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons, it has only treated 2,000 tons of e-waste from its founding more than a year ago. 'The biggest problem is that there isn't an e-waste recycling channel in China. The biggest chunks of raw materials we get are from government bodies, which are upgrading their equipments, and electronic appliances franchises that are washing out their outdated inventories. We don't have any imported e-waste because that's banned by the government. It takes a worker no more than ten minutes to disassemble a computer, and each worker can deal with between 60 to 70 computers a day,' says Janice Wu, who's the Environment & Quality Management Dept. Manager and Plant Manager Assistant.
1194-12 - CAMBODIA Khoun Sokhoun, 44, former garbage scavenger, now maker of hats from recycled plastic bags and other items from recycled paper, benefciary of project run by local NGO CSARO which works with waste collectors in Phnom Penh. Seen here with her sons and orphaned nephews
1194-22 - CAMBODIA Women trained by CSARO to make handicrafts from recycled materials. Some are former waste pickers whose lives have been improved by the project. Kim Savoeun, 49, is the mother of 2 of the girls working here. The settlement slum of San Sok, 10 kilometres outsdie Phnom Penh
1194-14 - CAMBODIA Khoun Sokhoun, 44, former garbage scavenger, now maker of hats from recycled plastic bags and other items from recycled paper, benefciary of project run by local NGO CSARO which works with waste collectors in Phnom Penh. Seen here with her sons and orphaned nephews
1194-13 - CAMBODIA Khoun Sokhoun, 44, former garbage scavenger, now maker of hats from recycled plastic bags and other items from recycled paper, benefciary of project run by local NGO CSARO which works with waste collectors in Phnom Penh. Seen here with her sons and orphaned nephews
1194-15 - CAMBODIA Khoun Sokhoun, 44, former garbage scavenger, now maker of hats from recycled plastic bags and other items from recycled paper, benefciary of project run by local NGO CSARO which works with waste collectors in Phnom Penh. Here she is showing a basket made from recycled paper