The Terrible Cost Of Ghana's Electronic Waste Dump

 

Agbogbloshie is a wasteland of smoke and rubble nicknamed 'Sodom and Gomorrah' by the locals. Plastic parts, wires, and pieces of metal and glass lie strewn across the terrain, alongside more immediately recognizable household objects like televisions and refrigerators.

And the air is thick with the harsh smell of burning plastic and foul sewage gases drifting in from the heavily polluted Odaw River. Men and boys wander this bleak landscape in search of anything they can salvage and re-sell.