e-waste Video from Greenpeace

e-Wasteland

We're back to Agbogbloshie again, and exploring our e-waste. This time, we have a new hexagon sheet created by Miss Kyndt, a Guardian article on the impact of the reclamation of e-waste, a video of Liam: the Apple robot, and the Slavery Footprint website.

e-wasteland from David Fedele on Vimeo.

Questions for Naasra - working in a graveyard for computers

We have introduced you to a place called Agbogbloshie
It is near the city of Accra on the coast of Ghana.
Naasra is one of the people who are making a living there... just.

Her picture is included in a photo story which was published in the New York Times.
The picture can't be reproduced here for copyright reasons, but you should take a look at the sequence to get an idea.

Re-watch the BBC CLICK sequence (it's only 4 minutes long) to see the impact of illegal e-waste imports on the soil, the atmosphere and the people of this place.



Also check out this Andrew McConnell photo essay and further links, many of which tell a similar (and in many ways familiar) story.

Is any of your family's old electronic waste here?
Can you be sure that it isn't?