Ghana: Digitial Dumping Ground - great site/documentary

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PBS Frontline: Small World

Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
Dirty little secrets from the e-waste trade

On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.

Correspondent Peter Klein and a group of graduate journalism students from the University of British Columbia have come here as part of a global investigation -- to track a shadowy industry that's causing big problems here and around the world.

Their guide is a 13-year-old boy named Alex. He shows them his home, a small room in a mass of shanty dwellings, and offers to take them across a dead river to a notorious area called Agbogbloshie.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/resources/faq.html

The Global Trade in Digital Waste - where does the electronic waste go?:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/map/map.html

There are tons of other interesting links