World VIII - Digital Dumping Ground: Frontline

This eye-opening 60 min. investigation by UBC journalism students tracks the questionable practise of e-waste dumping by industrialized nations into Africa, China, & India, showing computers "cooked" in unsafe conditions to extract metals & how easily personal information is retrieved from old hard-drives. Note: This evaluation refers only to the first segment, titled "Ghana".
Subject:
Science
Grades:
  • 10

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