Investigation / environment

ON THE E-WASTE TRAIL

about the film

“My country is being used as the world’s rubbish bin!” complains Mike Anane, an environmental activist based in Accra, Ghana. Annually, up to 50 million tons of e-waste – computers, television sets, mobile phones, household appliances – are discarded in the developed world. 75% of this waste disappears from the legal recycling circuits.

In this film, Mike travels to Spain and the UK to investigate how some of this waste finds its way to Ghana, revealing a toxic trade fuelled by greed and corruption.

Year

2014

Duration

43 min

Producers

Mediapro and Yuzu Productions for Aljazeera English ('Witness')