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Keywords
Children
Electronic waste
Electronic waste workers
Electronics
KWCI (GPI)
Pollution
Poverty
Shanty towns
Toxics (campaign title)
Waste disposal
Omar Sahrif Works with E-Waste
Omar Sahrif (14) has never been given guidelines on how to work safely with e-waste. He burns cables and wires: "It is very easy. We put them on the ground and start a fire with some paper. We use a stick to move the wires so the fire keeps going. It is easy. We try to keep a distance. Sometimes things explode, but usually it doesn't go very high".
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No Fundraising
Unique identifier:
GP01J92
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
14/08/2008
Locations:
Asia
,
Karachi
,
Lyari
,
Pakistan
Credit line:
© Robert Knoth / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Toxics E-Waste Documentation in Pakistan
In the Karachi district of Lyari, hundreds of workers, including teenage children, earn their livelihoods by dismantling electronic scrap and extracting valuable components such as copper to sell. This is an insight into the personal cost of e-waste. Thousands of tons of e-waste such as discarded PCs, mobile phones and TVs, are dumped in Africa and Asia every year. Greenpeace research shows that some of this waste is exported from Europe to Pakistan.
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