Computer recycling West Africa style - Click - BBC News
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2014
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Meet the people who make a living from sorting toxic e-waste in Ghana
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The world has sufficient resources to feed everybody's needs but not everybody's GREED
Thank you for shedding light on this important subject. I own an electronics recycling center and I do my best to recycle and separate all electronics all while repurposing whatever can be repurposed so that it does not end up in landfills or dumpsites like this.
I recently started making videos on my recycling process and would greatly appreciate all the support I could get!
No, this can't be! The magical trucks just take our waste and fly it off into the sunset where it disappears forever.
WOW I wish that could happen to my sister
Misty Sparrow
lol
I take back what I said, maybe sending trash to the sun ain’t such a good idea
Can the BBC able to provide any information about what companies are exporting e-waste to these area and where should we send e-waste to be safely taken recycled?
sims recycling solutions. they have a website.
recycling factories are expensive. the recycled final goods may not even cover the electricity bill
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Adam Chen I don’t know about the UK, but in the USA we play seven dollars for recycling fee every time we buy an electronics item. They are supposed to use that money to properly recycle electronics, yet they send electronics over to there to be burned causing human lives to suffer
@@KawaiiCat2 What state? At Illinois, there's no recycling fees if I were to purchase an electronic item.
Fallout 4 Ghana DLC?
At least there was one guy wearing a reflective safety vest. He won’t get sick
If I “responsibly” dispose of my computers, is this what it means?
Smashing video. Thanks BBC News for Uploading this video.
I remember watching a documentary a few years ago on this same place. It showed elementary age kids working that same place then. Can you imagine how terrible those fires burning off wire insulation really are? Africa just continues to get used and abused by Europe.
AND most of all, the USA
Yeh, it's great isn't it?
This is caused by ignorance, I trade with recycling materials and everything is valuable, even the plastics
Ermilo Isaac Victoria Jiménez I also do e waste salvage we have had a zero waste tolerance for years. and yes also plastics
This is why i get mad at local recycling centers, no paper plates, no ABS plastic, no regular batteries. Its to the point with our "Zero sort" recycling that i don't even do it anymore. Im told everytime i drop off my recycling, they don't take this or that. Recycling is only done if it turns a profit, not to save the earth.....sickening....
Good, your business must be booming in the west then.
Manufacturers are not required to be responsible for their product once it goes out the door, and most crap people own does not have any inherant value such was the failure of the PET plastic recycling that costs more than making the bottle out of virgin plastic.
@@chrisbrown-jw4ce I understand with your comment that you do not work in the plastics recycling business since PET is not mainly recycled to make bottles again, that volume is completely dwarfed by textile fiber manufacturers, that is the main use for PET bottles, and you're right in saying that PET bottle is not as good as virgin plastic nevertheless, the price is not the same, PET is way cheaper to get, compared to virgin fiber, so at the end even bottle manufacturers save cost on raw materials by taking PET flakes as 60% of the mixture against going 100% virgin plastic
It is crazy that after nine years the situation hasn't improved.
IT online classes are interesting right now
These people will NEVER change because they are incapable of that
The Florida clouds often have a brown tint.
The boy is too cute to be exposed to such health hazards. Even opening a mine would not be good. If I had money I would offer him something.
Alot of the footage comes from other documentaries...
Can't imagine the toxic smell in the air.
There is a time traveler, don’t let the government silence us
A wide variety of things could be done to reduce the rate of electronic waste.
One thing we can do is to stop replacing our electronics too frequently.
Why throw something away if it's not broken?
Whenever people replace their televisions or whatever, the old one can be sold or given away for free as long as it still works.
In the event it is faulty or damaged, it's possible it could be repaired or sold for spare parts.
Those flat screens.
That's a NVIDIA graphics card !!!
Lmao
@@happyd6145 Did anyone whatsapp you?
@@Pauly421 yes
But they prefer AMD there 😂😅🎉
Man this makes you appreciate more your life those guys work for 5$ and risk their life to get something to eat
I can't stand to see things 'recycled' in this way!
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This is a place in the lovely country of GHANA. There are mostly beautiful places we like for people to see of every country, but every country has its Ignored parts. And the well known places like USA, some of Europe, may dump toxic, chemical, electronic wastes in other countries that their citizens may not know about n some may not care, but at the end of the day, Our country's government also allows for the dump. It is what you make it or in this case what our country's leaders make it. Watch the MV "Life's what you make it" by Placebo.
You know, children in Africa could've eaten those computers. Oh wait...
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We all know how this smoke smell.... I think i have to puke 🤢
0:30 Dude, that’s an expensive Emporio by Armani t-shirt! How can you wear it while you’re doing that?
Holy shit.. these poor men.. imagine those fumes constantly... the first worker that spoke looked dazed as fuck! How could they possibly film this and do nothing about it! What an insult.
Everyone who reads this though, seriously picture yourself in a hot muggy environment you have fuck all clean water let alone food and you constantly have billows of black smoke smothering them
the film crew on this documentary cant really change the policys that allows tonnes of these items to be shipped around the world usually under the premise that it is repairable which most of the ewaste sent overseas is not.
Dump is ocean and don't do , we don't force you to do it
If people didnt fall for consumerism tricks none of this would be as bad. Cant just blame the public. *PEOPLE KEEP QUALITY ITEMS* i bought a new modern stereo from jb hi fi, laser burnt out within 7months. Yet, my grandfather has the yamaha stereo my dad brought him over 10years ago..
A compter from just 10 years using the newest and fastest technology from back then, if not upgraded, is about halve as powerful as a computer using the newest technology, so it is not Only about "quality" parts.
Do it of not
I can tell a fake cough.
How does biosphere?
It doesn't
The value of the precious metals in e-waste is very high. Do these companies that send e-waste to third world countries not realise just how much the metal are worth. An oil drum full of computer CPUs is worth £24,000 in gold and that's excluding the other rare earth metals.
Whilst yes that is true, if you look at the process of how they extract gold from computer parts, it is extremely difficult and expensive to do so, meaning that £24,000 might be £6,000 if you are lucky but don't forget the import taxes as you can not do this in most countries, and the commission that the gold sellers take by selling your gold to them, and on top of alll of these remember it is not that easy to get a Oil drum full of cpu's especial if you have to pay people to get there Cpu's.
I think the only solution is to get companys to take back their used product for responsible recycling sending this crap to africa should be banned.
Where does the metal they collect go?
You dont want to know the answer to that question a metal recycler collects it before it is collected and probably shipped off to another country for them to refine it back down make another electronic items which is used then breaks and probably shipped back to africa as ewaste.
Why watch them suffer and take video only though….. :,)
Why can't we just send some SSI Shreaders over there??
Scott Furence Nothing should be sent there, every country should deal wit their own waste. I dont understand why the Ghanaian officials allowed other countries to send their waste there. They are from the US and from Europe.
No I mean like bud a recycle plant over there like we have all n the US they'll make more than what they are
mokgboy the companies should be responsible..esp. after the careless destruction of a beautiful, life-giving river
Who's gonna pay to inspect all these bulk shipments of old junk electronics they get at the cost of shipping?
@@erinclay8312 They can but you wouldn't pay extra to have it taken care of after you're done using the product. You absolutely piece of waste of perfectly good air.
Technology? More like dead
why is he purposely sitting down draft? is he not as smart as the locals? I wonder if they think he is the fool?
Too many people on earth
yeah, we need some bigger asteroid
North Korea looks like paradise compared to this, this is literally the poor fighting for the crumbs except the crumbs is copper from wires
plastics are the big problem
2:43 just like Chernobyl Russia
They could just cut the insulation off and not burn it get sick and poison their home but that's too much like hard work. This is not the western countries fault that e waste is a gift they are just too stooped to process it properly
"They could just cut the insulation off and not burn it" but that would be work, burn it is with no work
" AFRICA " the new frontier.
Ghana is actually one of the nicest countries to live, but some parts of it like this not so legal business, is downtrodden.
Hola
Wrong heading !! Should read Accra recycled
Nonsense. I hate BBC for showing the worst part in Africa. Why don’t they show the beautiful stuff and innovations we have got in Ghana . ?
People in developed countrys need to be made aware of this to put pressure on politicians so they can stop screwing poor countrys by sending ghana all of our rubbbish. If people want to see whats good about ghana and travel there is plenty of other shows showing of the good of the country.
in the same way, truthfully, they lie to you about the war of Russia and Ukraine...
Waste of Fossil Oil
they are happy to breathe western smell
Westen countries have the responsibility to change this!
Why? The video itself even said that the Ghana government actually tries to reduce the import of e-waste, however it could potentially not only affect the economy but also the consumers as it could hinder the import of used electronics.
interesting
If you, the makers of electronic devices and products you don’t know how to recycle safely your e waste how do you expect Africa to deals with this. So stop wasting your time on showing how countries suffer from this trash and go search informations and report people behind this problem
The problems is policy that allows this to happen and there are other documentarys on youtube that show behind the scenes, usually with this sort of thing there is a trail of people and all of whom would have little responisbility and much deniability along the way.
Why did Africa kick out Europe?!
Poor clueless people!
They can literally not do ANYTHING for or by themselves!
This is Africa's main problem...God(whoever you are), please help these people, I beg you!
Same people that are sending them this crap?
They failed to kick them! Europe are still there supporting dictatorships that cause all this misery. Also, many actual problems were caused by european imperialist presence in Africa.
Dont be fooled by all of the live aid for africa rich countrys are in africa making billions of dollars, corporations contribute nothing to the continent, the poorest countrys in this world are subsidizing the rich countrys of this world. Whatever they give in foreign aid they make 10 times more profit out of in resources.
Waste of Fossil Oil