How organised crime is fuelling a rise in e-waste trafficking - BBC World Service

The trafficking of e-waste is on the rise. Organised crime groups are illegally sending the phones, computers and TVs you throw away to the developing world.

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At one dumpsite in Ghana, workers burn the plastic to extract gold and other precious metals. But it’s a toxic environment – the plastics in e-waste contain chemicals that can cause respiratory diseases and cancer.

0:00 Introduction
0:51 Naples: How organised crime trafficks illegal waste from Europe to the developing world
3:00 Agbogbloshie: The illegal dumpsite where workers burn e-waste to recover precious metals
5:04 The Alhassan family: How breathing in the toxic fumes from the dumpsite makes them sick
7:08 What’s being done? How the UN is helping to crack down on the criminal gangs
9:41 The fisherman: David Narh sometimes ends up with a third of his nets containing plastic
10:54 How the Ghanian authorities are dealing with the problem

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