The secrets of the largest e-waste dump in the world Bashny.Net

Technologies are developing quite rapidly — almost daily there are new devices and household appliances and electronics. This, of course, great. But there is a flip side: if consumers are buying new equipment, old goes to landfill. Computers, flash drives, music players, phones — they are most often thrown away. Director David Fedele visited the largest landfill of electronic waste, which is located in Ghana. Here every year from Europe and other parts of the world dumped more than 200,000 tons of waste.









The dump pickers work. They burn the device to get to valuable metals: aluminum, copper — they are usually on chips. The result over the dump formed a huge toxic cloud that looms here for many years. The film, which is called E-Wasteland, no long dialogues and arguments — the picture tells the story pretty eloquently about what is happening.



Recall that recently, the radioactive waste dump has become a tourist attraction.

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