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Accra, Ghana, 2009
Guiyu, China, May 2008
Lagos, Nigeria, 2005
Taizhou, China, 2004
Guiyu, China, December 2001

Accra, Ghana, 2009

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Guiyu, China, May 2008

Girl Clean Fish Burn Houses Kids with Mom       Burn Houses Bags Burned Components Inside Burn Houses       Acidstripping Drainage Acidstripping OPs Ashes Piled by River       Technotrash by Stream Men Cracking Burned Units Inside Burn Houses           Hong Kong Smuggling Depot

Lagos, Nigeria, 2005

Boy Hauling Electronic Scrap Broken Televisions and Monitors Burning Television       Burned Televisions Electronic Waste Electronic Waste       Electronic Waste Market Scavenger Boy Market Workers       Molten Television Obsolete IT Equipment Scrap Computers         Nigerian Worker Workers Unloading Container

Taizhou, China, 2004

Wire Scrap Pulled by Hand from Computers Containers Full of Electronic Equipment Ashes After Electronic Equipment Burning       Imported Circuit Board Scrap for "Cooking" Worker in Taizhou Electronic Scrap Yard Workers Opening Sealed Refrigeration Unit       Former Farmers Hauling Circuit Boards Former Farmer "Harvesting" Circuit Boards Former Farmers Cooking Circuit Boards       Elderly Chinese Farmer Elderly Chinese Farmer Elderly Former Farmer         Former Farmers "Harvesting" Circuit Boards Former Farmer "Cooking" Circuit Boards

Guiyu, China, December 2001

Acid Worker Burning Plastics Child on Garbage       Dump Sample Escrappers Toner Recovery       Computer Monitor Labels Hammering a Monitor Wire Burning Village