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Keywords
Computers
Electronic waste
Electronics
KWCI (GPI)
Plastics
Poverty
Shanty towns
Toxics (campaign title)
Waste disposal
Piles of Plastic, Monitors and Other Electronic Waste
Huge piles of plastic, monitors and other electronics are collected. They will be shredded, bleached and then sold.
Unique identifier:
GP01J99
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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