Why Teens In India Hunt For Old Electronics At Toxic Dumps | Risky Business
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2023
- Around 50,000 people, many of them children, spend hours recovering gold, copper, and platinum from devices at the largest e-waste landfill in India.
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India is the Biggest Dumping Ground for E-Waste. Here's How Teens Recycle It | Risky Business
As with many of these documentaries, it seems the main issue is governments/countries not doing anything about mass waste that's burying and poisoning their people, all while getting paid by companies that paid to have no responsibility over the major negative effects of their selfish and corrupt business practices. It's turned into "legal" mass pollution but the only ones affected (and blamed) are the poor and ignored. Why are we still allowing companies to pay to get their way? And why are we electing people who are sponsored by them? It's all money and greed.
the main issue is always the human and individuals' responsibility.
@@zsomborerdesz3364 how is it the individuals responsibility? That's nonsense - it's giant mega-corporations and government inaction that is responsible.
Individual action will never ever be enough to undo the damage and waste done by these giant corporations. Individual action is nonsense made up by the fossil fuel industry to shift attention and blame away from the creators of the pollution, and onto the consumer who will never be able to make enough of a difference individually to ever make up for the destruction and havoc caused by the ones doing the polluting in the first place.
It’s always been like this
Developing nations have no regulations. And when they do they can be easily paid away with bribes.
because tech companies thought that recycling was expensive and lengthy process
We often forget this is the real cost of cheap electronics
What about prestigious electronics by Apple? They produce the same waste
Ideally, the cost of 100% recycling should also be included in the price that the end customer pays.
@@Gadavillers-Panoir Or businesses that make the products in the first place should be responsible for having donation centers within their store where they recycle it and not charge consumers for doing so.
：（we're goner now...
Still have chance!
There nothing wrong with cheap electronics, it just people dont want to recycle it properly
India can actually make some money out of this of course by not making these 9yr olds work for them, but by creating an actual industry for recycling electronics if it's a dumping ground for e-waste.
India has already implemented those in many cities like Indore the wastes are seperated from beginning and then degradable waste are used as compost and non degradables are used in cement factories in making roads. The main reason those are operated illegally Why they are collecting e waste on train tracks because when they snatch phones from running trains mostly it fells and broke down and have no use so they sell them in gaffar market which is phone market for 3$ 240 rupees. It's just that every story has face shown by narrator.
That's actually true in one way, but still waste management in india is not really good, especially for such a populous country
@@iamhritikjha
This is truth nowadays
not questioning government and blaming on individuals
They are not snatching they are collecting waste phone near railway track because in India there is no waste management every thing end's up on roads and railway track
@@aiyan72 Lol even I'm Indian and I know what exactly ends upon railway tracks. No phones with motherboards are thrown out on railway tracks and no one pays 600 for a dead motherboard Truth is the waste management has much better in India shown in that propaganda video but no worries UK will burn their ass just ranting on India and still we are growing better than before
@@iamhritikjha wow
Right to repair, abolishing planned obsolescence, and giving them screwdrivers could potentially alleviate this problem. Also if they learned what the components are, they could sell it for more, with less risk instead of trying to reduce it to base metals
I'm crying inside to see this...
Right to repair and abolishing planned obsolescence would keep some of it from ending up there but it's not going there if it's fixable
It provides them livelihood. You guys think about climate change... future and other nonsense but there are people who are thinking about their present.
@@Dr.Kraig_RenDo you think better equipment and knowledge is not going to make their job easier, safer, and more profitable?
Give them gloves too and eye wear and mask too
The tech giants and OEMs should design a whole recycling pipeline and setup facilities to carryout the recycles, everytime they design a new use-and-throw product!
In my area the grabage guy takes 100 Rs per house. He easily makes more than a 4 lakh per month and contributes nothing to recycling. Because he dumps everything in landfill all together. Reason being he cannot be questioned by common people. The authority takes a cut, MLA takes a cut and he earns.
That's the corruption of our indian politicians.
That landfill looked like it was in the CENTER of that city, how gross is that?? Put it on the outskirts of the city like most cities do. Why put it there in the middle of where people are living??
That part was not the centre of the city However it's the people who chose to dump waste in rivers instead of dumping with proper waste. As they don't have any license which is required as per government they choose not to do proper waste management as they'll be on the eye of the government. That area (seelampur) is full of leather industries and all which dumps tons of rotten skins and dyes into the river.
Sad
Companies have to make devices more easy to recycle.
Ideally every component/sub-component in a device should be made to be recyclable.
@@Gadavillers-Panoiryeah but it will increase production price a will leads to costly products that result in less profits for companies it will take so much time for a company to become eco friendly hope they become soon
The more repairable and upgradable an electronic, the less company make profit
iPhone is the opposite of this
@@bread_enjoyer Yes and even with the new M1 Chips where everything is solder to the motherboard , ram , and storage. You can't upgrade or replace. Apple is the worst company ever.
Recycling is better than mining
I went there a few years ago with a scientist friend of mine and I can tell you that place smells worse than you could ever imagine. All sorts of waste ends up in the river, dyes, acids, sewage, oils and of course heavy metals
Dead bodies too!
@@sktoh4469 yeah that's common. I saw skulls and burning funeral pyre a
looks like a great place for macdonalds
@@fidelcatsro6948 yerp 🤣🤣
which state?
our media wont cover this
Sad that some people have to live in such horrible and unimaginable conditions. Definitely thankful for my life.
Do like Singapore. Burn the whole damn thing, turn into ashes and dump into sea to create islands. Burning waste can create energy. The smokes can be filtered into clean air.
That could work for a country like Singapore where people are civilized and there's strict law. In India even folks who have been educated to a PhD level also don't have awareness on these concepts of waste management because simply there isn't any methodology even in metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi etc.
@@crescendo42069 civilised because they have been once captured by British after they left they took some steps
Some closet and a section of my garage looks like e-waste dumping ground. I have been responsible about this issue and have restricted electronic purchases for years and practicing RRR since childhood, I can tell you everyone from bottom to top is incompetent and utterly irresponsible here in India.
>The response of electronic companies
Last year I contacted some e-waste management organization and few electronics companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, BBK, and few major electronic appliance retailers in my city and to put it briefly "ALL" of them refused to pick-up or let me drop those electronics even when I pleaded them that I won't take the rewards they usually promise for submitting e-waste to them, when I questioned them about why their e-waste pickup points are named such they were spinning their words and were unable to answer.
>Government (municipality) said they'll throw them in landfills anyways. It would be salvaged by poor people like the ones in the video only after the waste is dumped first. Politicians don't even lie or make fake promises about waste management here that I could say "The government lied to me."
>Now where do I even start with our sick consumerism and attitude towards waste management, people would flame anyone for stereotyping India, but that's not even a stereotype it's just true.
>Rest is story, some of which are covered by external or small journalists which by default gets ignored. Everyone knows the solutions no one works on them even for themselves.
Yeah we were all doomed the moment, the industrial revolution started
It’s a shame that we spent billions upon billions on stupid wars but can’t invest billions into ourselves to lift everyone out of poverty and together work toward a brighter future for us all
Bro slowly u see india become capitalism country. Every businessman Tata Ambani adani all are real culprit. They know all the stuff but still nothing do .
They know about because poor People get cheap easily they know about
And Develop the nature the way it was
Not just making worse by putting crap and human waste in sea rivers pond
From river to sea earth will be free 🆓
I wore away my finger prints when I was a pot washer in a restaurant.. that was over ten years ago and although they have come back a little bit still barely visible! I always jokes about being a bank robber l.. it's funny because some people actually believe it!
It's going to be real funny when the police and courts believe it and convict you of a crime you haven't even committed...
Bro kitchen gloves cost like $4. Why didn't you just buy some basic gloves??
Ohhh really first time I am seeing this thanks inside 💠 🤝
The world is becoming like the earth in the movie WAL-E
I'm glad they banned plastic straws in Europe. I love saving the environment!
yes and you use paper straw, hidden they not tell you is the paper straw has ton of chemical in it, and you need to cut down
trees to make the straw.
they also ban single use bag, now you have paper bag, mean more tree need to cut..... you are ignorance
Paper straw cause more harm to the environment to then plastic one do.
@@formanga8871No it doesnt because it decomposes unlike plastic.The plastic harms animals.
@@GassedCider Do you know where paper straw come from?
@@formanga8871 Yeah tree's
One mans trash is another mans treasure. While the rich nations in the west easily throw away Electronic goods(even though one small part may need to be replaced for repair) we use it to make new ones. And we understand their issue as well that repairs are becoming way to costly grand example being Apple.
Yeah exactly. These greedy fucks could care less about anything but the bottom line.
😊
God Bless Gulzar and his friends ❤
From one of the FOUR HORSEMAN of civilizations to a keffel...just sad!!
me a eletrical car mechanic ...looks at his soft smooth hands as they talk about the cuts and bruises : rolls eyes
He is a kid, you are an adult
@@Dr.Kraig_Renyou don't get the point.
Fortunate people try to criminalise child labour but they often ignore the fact that its not a choice for everyone
By employing a 14 year old if you are able to make a difference between a family eating or sleeping empty stomach
Child labour lies in gray area and have to be treated with caution
A childs expenses should be supported by the Government and the community. It's the parents fault for bringing the child into the world if they couldn't support it.
@@gandhardessai8788lmao what? They only had one child. Blame government not people
@@gandhardessai8788 say taht to state of Delhi government
They are doing opposing politics every speech eachother talk bjp bjp bjp kongress kongress aap aap
@@Dr.Kraig_Ren I did specifically blamed government here? Couldn't you read? And it's also the Parents fault, doesn't matter how many no. of children they had. Even one was their own decision.
@@NewstatePlayer100 I know, I'm criticizing Govt. In a general manner.
I feel for that gulzaar guy 😢may god bless him
It's barely comprehensible that a sweet kid works this hard in India, while we have bratty teenagers by the boat load here in the west. Perhaps a little work/life exchange program might help a few of them learn the value of life. We just don't know how good we have it here in the west.
Before exchange program why don't u also make them learn ur history, not ur white washed history " we went there to civilise them"
Don't have kids if you can't take of them then.
Everything can be turned to profit!
Every pease of garbage is a commodity!
1. Government provided locations and infrastructure.
2. Private initiative and cooperatives for colection of different parts and materials.
No it isn’t. Which is why peope don’t recycle it: it’s not worth it. The only reason these poor kids do it is because they’re so poor that it is worth it for them.
Theres 9 billion cell phones in use right now. Several times that are in the trash. Imagine all other electronics
They covered this in Futurama Season 7 episode 3....12 YEARS AGO.
India needs startups in recycling ♻️
Scrap uncle
At the same time this very country put a rover on the moon. Means that money isn't the issue here. The government just doesn't seem to want to spend it on waste management.
Just see how less money we used to put our rover on it. Also I am not saying the problem is not there, I saying it was not that big of an issue as the video trying to make it.
There is others things we have to worry about.
Because INDIA has 10 times more population than america. What would america do if all indians migrate to america . This would be the same situatuion there.
@@GowthamV07 oh, so because India has more people, it can't employ them to properly handle its waste?
EXACTLY! instead of helping their own PEOPLE, they throw all that money and resources sending a ship to the fking MOON!! like WE have already been there since the 1960s, we know whats there, be brought back samples, we dont NEED more pretty photos of landings and dead rocks and dust- they should focus on their PEOPLE first and worry about the moon LAST!
Putting a rover on the moon isn’t impressive in 2023. The U.S. and Russia did it 60 years ago.
Politicians and Private Sector failing miserably
And low moral ordinary educated people
No wisdom don't want to work
Useless humans
I’ll take your old electronics any day!
Buying a pair of gloves shouldn’t be any more then a shirt or pants
Please u are always welcome to provide for them
It's very hot there and wearing gloves will make it mode hot
Throwing something away is easy.
Recycling it is a different skill on its own.
Yes it takes absolute mind work and integration i would like learn this stuff because I want to be different from ordinary educated people
wow, India is really a one big cespool
blame the governments..they allow this to happen
We fight not against flesh and blood but principalities in high places
The US workers are doing the same thing...sorting waste manually except they're wearing gloves😂😂😂
And shoes. And masks. And arm sleeves. And...
Beautiful Delhi ❤
The most effective solution is to lower consumption.
Population control being the starting and most critical point besides other measures to be taken. But doesn’t look like governments would react as required.
Modi is on the take, like the vast majority of Indian civil serpents.
@@SimonTmtewhat India itself has surpassed China in population with 34% of the land area and has more than 4times population density than of US .Still you'll say we are in negative.Cost of living in Mumbai is approx 35% of new york while average income is of 10% than NY. Population control is the only key to save resources if we want to keep the earth habitable.
@@iamhritikjhamain thing is standard and expectation of living, in countries like India people are okay with low standard of living and they marry and have kids , if their desires were higher they wouldn't settle down until they have achieved those goals ,thats basically the difference between west and us mentally
@@drinkwoter mindset and living standard varies person to person we can't judge the whole population for a thought
All women( especially) who thinks of being single is good in their teens, 20's, early 30's realise they need kids towards late 30's early 40's when even IVF become unsure.. as their parents die, friends got away.. siblings (if there are) move away... no husband, bf's, kids... there will be a hollowness staring at them.. money, travel,hobbies, shopping cant fill that sadly, as humans are social animals.. they may endup in oldage homes with noone tp enquire abt them.. and die lonely -sadly -depressed... men are historically used to die lonely, they can be lone wolf.. its new to women.. even in europe lonely women getting to old age is now only happening and that's why indian and asian nurses go there to take care these lonely old aged people.. its staring indians too shortly
A basic set of tools, m ask and puncture proof gloves is all that is needed to make their work easier and safer for them.
India has become the world's largest dumping ground for electronic waste, with most of it processed and recycled manually, often by teenagers. E-waste contains toxic chemicals such as lead, arsenic, and mercury, but also valuable materials like copper, platinum, and gold. However, due to the complicated and expensive process of recycling, much of the e-waste ends up in landfills. In India's Seelampur neighborhood, nearly 50,000 people, many teenagers, scavenge through e-waste for old cellphones, computers, and video game controllers. The health risks are high, and many suffer from damaged hands and fingers. Although some facilities use modern machinery to process e-waste, most of the work is done by hand. Memory units, processors, screens, keyboards, and motherboards can be reused, and big hard drives pulled from computers or servers are another moneymaker. However, only 17% of electronics discarded globally were recycled in 2019, with much of it illegally shipped to developing countries, where it's handled by informal workers without the knowledge or tools to safely handle it. This is contaminating the environment and affecting the human body, leading to skin diseases, different types of cancers, and organ damage.
If they didnt have this to sell to buy food they'd starve, since THIS is what is paying for fod, Indias problem is OVERPOPULATION and people having 6,7,8,9 children they cant even feed and then they complain about their poverty!
i feel proud on india .. jai india
76 साल में 60 साल सिर्फ लोगो को फ्री फ्री बाटकर वोट लिया गया फैक्ट्री का पैसा ,डैम ,नहर ,रोड ,नाली ,seavage का पैसा फ्री फ्री बाट दिया गया ,फ़ोन tv ac एयरोप्लेन तोप गन यही बन सकता था लेकिन फ्री फ्री फैक्ट्री का बिजली डबल रेट हो गया ,ऊपर से फैक्ट्री का टैक्स डबल जिससे समान महँगा ,चीन से मंगाना पड़ता है इतने महेंगी बिजली फैक्ट्री के लिए सस्ता समान बनाना impossible ,तेल गैस सोना सब बहार से
Haizz, they always talk about their spaceship in the moon, but their people live a life like in some poor country
Watching from india
Seems like the first problem is general waste. Solve that and enforce it then everything will follow in line
It won't happen because it's too expensive to recycle electronics in western countries.
Seelampur is the mini Pakistan of Delhi
Gulzar is a handsome young man. He could be a model, for example. I wish him and his hardworking friends blessings and good fortune.
You don't gain respect from society by working in entertainment industry. You only earn respect as Engineer, Technologist, Lawyer, and Doctor. Period!
Who else thought their personal phone was ringing at 2:44 and had to pause their tablet? 😂
I would ask my dad, who is from a "3rd world country," why every video like this depicts people in saddles, sitting on the ground to be interviewed and always in a squatting position while working.
His reply: "It looks good for TV."
lol its not staged, its reality for more than 300 million people in India. Maybe your dad wants to forget where he came from
Squatting position is super common.
@@gatech5190 Yup, just a pretentious comment by a person who has no idea about the ground reality.
Ignorance is bliss for some.
@@gatech5190they went to some slums this is what they see. Let them go to the suburbs and homes there. Why always some slums!!
If these teenagers not do these things, then who will do??
I see many videos about these types of ricky work, if they not do these low class work then who will do. These work are also important. Only Machine can't take there place, there should be a human to work
5:25 Out of B-roll? That isn't even e-waste
5:55 , yeah no sh*** 😂
I wanted to send my power bank in a recycling facility but unfortunately never found one.
Immigrants Immigrants Immigrants, they are not Indians.
Yeah these are hindus from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
That's not the majority of the world's electronics
Goodjob, Government..😊
Listen to your mother. Education will give you a better chance at life.
& that educated produced more e waste
India needs to clean up.
They are Bangladeshi not Indians...
Yeah thats why they are working and not reping tourists
Do you guys need burnol, It's recommend to play on burn areas.
Also where is the source of information is? When it was recorded time and all? It's basic to provide the source and time, didn't it?
How many phones do people go through? I can count the number of cellphones i've had on one hand.
Maybe ask why people go through so many Phones. The main reason is Built-in obsolescence.
We, humans, are really destroying this earth.
God bless them❤
cost of a safety gloves goes down as low as 19₹ but the thing is people dont know how to get it where to get it
Yeah seems like a job opportunity to sell it if the people that recycle have a demand for it.
Wow❤❤❤❤
why dont they sell it online? a ton of people would buy old/retro electronics at a high price
I hope to god that these parts that are being taken out of an OLD device are being sold as USED parts even though I did NOT hear her mention that. So the $100 Motherboard I bought for my laptop was probably out of someone's junked laptop and I got it for a real bargain at $100 for something USED and was thrown away. WOW, what a fecking deal I got and it only lasted another 6 months. People, beward of used and NEW parts because I obviously got screwed front and back.
USED was probably WHY it only lasted 6 months, testing components to pass them doesnt mean they are any good, older electronics develop intermittent problems, similar to lead acid car batteries, after a bout 10 months my new NAPA battery would be dead in the morning, charging it up it would be fine for a week and then be dead again. NAPA checked it with TWO different battery check devices and both said the battery was GOOD.
A couple of weeks later and 2 more dead mornings I bought a new battery and the problem went away, so despite the TWO testing devices saying it was GOOD, it obviously was not and the tests MISSED it.
One reason can be increasing in
privatisation of waste management attracting customers with competitive prices and ultimately these informal waste collectors coming to these toxic waste dumps.
Scammers watching this video 😳😳
You say the electronics cause all these issue but look at how filthy the whole country is, throwing trash and openly defecating in river doesn't have anything to do with it right??
thats why the theft mobile for PCB .
Why work in such conditions. They should come to bomaby and live in vasai virar and they can get some decent job better then this.
But they simply wanna live hell of capital of nai delhi 😂😂😂
You shift the video from a poor ewaste picker in india to the largest e waste processor in america what a transition.
That is why we like to see insider casestudies. You go from bottom to top and top to bottom without any hesitation
Sarcasm or Critisism
Starting work at 16 is completely normal, when was in highschool you got a diploma at 16 Years Old, after grade ten .. that allowed you start a government sponsored apprentice program in many regulated trades. And this is is Canada
The same ones calling trying to scam u everyday
Western media will never stop comparing Asia
Only India
May they get whatever they want ❤
A lot of facilities are opening in india for recyling e waste.
First we throw away our e waste but now the vendors come in villages for buying e waste and they give around 50 to 100rs for a dead phone.
That's good
Not like good for nothing
let them clean up the broke down stuff
Here in state of Karnataka you'll see dumping trash near roads that's how civil it is !!!!
Good for them in working hard, keep up the good work
„His fingerprints had worn away”.
Well that’s adorable :)
You know the fingerprints will grow back? :)
Just use password or face lock
environmentally friendly, good
Hey Beavis, this dude makes money out of trash every day.
Haha
Don't see women clambering for 50% quotas in these deadly dangerous jobs, happy to leave it to men to live with the consequences it seems.
That government doesn't give af
Because Brits are busy applying burnol and posting those videos
"One's Greed Another's Suffering "
@ 6:45 I think they have some bigger probablemente to solve than ewaste
aleem may the god bless you man
I pay a “Recycling fee” in Canada as well as Carbon tax, 15% sales tax and 20% income tax. Glad to see that all these taxes add up to more rich people than ever before and the poor ending up with my waste because of mismanagement and corruption 👍 Hold these companies and governments accountable EVERYWHERE.
6:17 SKY DONT LIE !
Que the first word sooks!
If they can find a Commodore 64 or Apple II they should keep it instead of scrap it. It is a lucky find
Yep the Indian Computer famous Hacker, of the world, need there systems updated all the time. To hack better
My respect for these superheroes👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I also have my previous mobile phone 📱 and I still capt them bcz I don't no where to dump them properly or how to.
What if we add up the recycling price of every single electronic device with it mrp and company need to give that to the authorities for the process
At least they don't work at scam call centers!
Elecreonic waste or food waste? What you wasting ? Answer please..
lmao if only they knew how to operate a damn screwdriver!!! there hands would still be good lmaoooo😂😂😂😂😂
0:20 has a smartwatch, but 'cant afford' basic gloves and complains about cuts... Insider News became such a joke it's hard to handle even as a casual side watch
i've been scrolling through comments to see if anyone noticed this too!