Stunning Photos of a Vast E-Waste Dumping Ground — And Those Who Make a Living off It
By Jonathan Lambert
When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the equivalent of about 60 U.S. dollars.
Photo courtesy of Fairphone.
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