Dead floppy drive: Kenya recycles global e-waste
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 12:30
in Earth & Climate
In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This assembly line is not assembling, though. It is dismantling some of the estimated 50 million metric tons of hazardous electronic-waste the world generated last year.