Ghafoor Ibrahim at a Scrap Yard Near the Lyari River

Ghafoor Ibrahim collects anything of value that is left behind at a plastics and computer scrap yard near the Lyari River. The monitors are shredded and the wires and circuit boards set on fire near the river to get the metals out.

Unique identifier: GP01J95

Type: Image

Shoot date: 14/08/2008

Locations: Asia, Karachi, Lyari, Pakistan

Credit line: © Robert Knoth / Greenpeace

Size: 4500px × 4500px 3MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Toxics E-Waste Documentation in Pakistan

In the Karachi district of Lyari, hundreds of workers, including teenage children, earn their livelihoods by dismantling electronic scrap and extracting valuable components such as copper to sell. This is an insight into the personal cost of e-waste. Thousands of tons of e-waste such as discarded PCs, mobile phones and TVs, are dumped in Africa and Asia every year. Greenpeace research shows that some of this waste is exported from Europe to Pakistan.

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