Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published April 21, 2009.
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Most of us have an old cell phone or computer that doesn’t work anymore, and can’t really be fixed. Once those things get thrown out, where do they wind up? Recent studies indicate that broken gadgets that arrive in developing countries are disguised as second-hand electronic goods, but are in fact electronic waste – which is an open violation of international treaties that ban the trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes. FSRN's Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos, where defunct items become toxic electronic junk that threatens human health.
