People love gadgets--- especially shiny new ones. Bigger screens. Faster processors. Slimmer profiles. But what happens to our mobile phones, computers and televisions when we upgrade? Some of them ...

Due to the toxic chemicals in electronic appliances — TVs, computers, stereo systems, refrigerators — the cost of disposing of such items correctly is costly and dangerous. This has made illegal ...

Agbogbloshie is a vast, scorched field, right in the middle of Accra, Ghana, dotted with rusting hulks and heaps of scrap. Hundreds of people work here in what looks like hell: smashing, burning, ...

The average American produces an estimated 66 pounds of electronic waste every year. You can't compost it; it's gotta go somewhere. Often, in violation of the law, that means a dump in the developing ...

Young men sitting in the wreckage of a toxic wasteland, children picking through piles of high-tech rubble, women hunched over coils of tangled copper wiring: These are the faces of e-waste, as we ...

Photographer Asare Adjei captures the lives of locals in Accra's slum city, where 50m tonnes of e-waste is dumped each year No one knows when Agbogbloshie began. The slum city in south Ghana didn’t ...

Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point, writes Dagna Rams. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation ...

The police have deployed more men to Agbogbloshie to maintain calm following violent clashes that have led four people, including a policeman injured. The clashes began at the Onion Market here in ...

On a recent trip to Washington DC, I delivered a presentation (pdf) on mapping the informal settlements of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana. I was asked a question: "By uniformly mapping and addressing ...

Due to the toxic chemicals in electronic appliances — TVs, computers, stereo systems, refrigerators — the cost of disposing of such items correctly is costly and dangerous. This has made illegal ...