The project, called E-Waste in Ghana: Tracing Transboundary Flows, which won this year's Fondation Carmignac photojournalism award, aims to capture both the positive and negative aspects of e-waste.

a district of Ghana's capital Accra on May 23, 2019. Electronic waste at Agbogbloshie release heavy acidic smokes threatening the health of locals living around. Workers here face various types of ...

In this Nov. 26, 2018, photo, a man uses a wire-stripping machine to get to the copper and other metals in discarded electronic cables in Accra, Ghana. A safer option to burning the plastic ...

Ghana has successfully implemented the Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) project, establishing a robust foundation for sustainable e-waste management and achieving significant technical, policy, ...

On the outskirts of Accra lies the Agbogbloshie slum—one of Ghana's largest electronics-waste ... reducing many communities to massive piles of smoldering e-waste. Photographer Pieter Hugo ...

Having long invaded Asia, e-waste from Europe and the United States is arriving in extensive quantities in the ports of West African countries such as Ghana, in violation of international treaties.

Ibrahim is working as a “burner boy” – the name given to the young boys and men who trawl through piles of electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, a vast dump near the centre of Ghana’s capital ...

When we throw things away, this is "away": mountains of garbage across acres of land, with tens of thousands of people sifting through it, in places like the African nation of Ghana. It is not the ...

China and India have previously been the main repositories for "e" waste but now attention is turning to the West African country of Ghana.

Muntaka Chasant for Fondation Carmignac The project, called E-Waste in Ghana: Tracing Transboundary Flows, which won this year’s Fondation Carmingac photojournalism award, aims to capture both ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — On any given day, plumes of noxious smoke rise above the Agbogbloshie dump site in Ghana’s capital, Accra. The billowing black smoke comes from the many informal e-waste ...