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A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana

The unexpected consequences of shipping computers to the developing world.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html

In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the 
capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad 
to get at the precious metals inside.
Credit: Pieter Hugo for The New York Times

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