5200 x 3467 px | 44 x 29,4 cm | 17,3 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2008
Ort:
Lagos,Nigeria
Weitere Informationen:
Electronic waste export to Nigeria; Alaba International Market one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa New and old and a lot of non working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US Western Europe and China. A dump site at the back of the market The dump is mainly television casings some circuit boards and general waste The dump is slowly moving into the swampy land functioning as a land fill. This picture is part of a story done for Greenpeace on illegal electronic waste exports from the UK. A TV set originally delivered to municipality run collecting point in the UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS Global Positioning System, satellites GSM positioning using data from mobile networks to triangulate approximate positions and a radio frequency transmitter all put inside the discarded TV by Greenpeace. The TV arrived in Lagos and was traced to Alaba International Market, in container no 4629416, the TV was identified amongst thousands of old TVs and bought back by Greenpeace activists.
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