Computer Graveyard: The E-Waste Story Nobody Talks About

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  • Welcome to Mustafabad in North-east Delhi,a sea of activity where thousands of discarded computers arrive from all over India, mainly from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Maharashtra.

  • Workers, covered with grime and dust, their hands dirty and gnarled, their eyes revealing the tragedy of their lives, plod on all day.

  • Soon, the insidious crawl of the smoke inside their bodies will damage the kidney,brain and lungs, resulting in skin diseases, hormonal imbalances, asthma and even cancer.

  • Award winning environmentalist Bharti Chaturvedi who is the founder of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, points out: The informal sector is forced to recover e-waste in ways that endanger their health.

  • He first opens a monitor, casts the plastic body aside to be sold later as scrap, and then, dismantles the cathode ray tubes (CRT), He cleans polishes and refurbishes it.


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