Britain's e-waste illegally leaking into West Africa |
In Britain each year, we throw away a million tonnes of electronic waste - enough to fill Wembley Stadium six times over. So what happens to our broken TVs and computers - our e-waste - once we have dumped it it ends up in Ghana.
10-year-old Mohammed reveals the deep open cut on his thumb, visible through the black soot that covers his small hands. Two other cuts have been covered up with blackened, filthy plasters.
He says that the wounds are from the sharp copper wire that he is scavenging from the biggest digital graveyard in Africa.
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