This picture explores the the way consumer electronics are sold, and then disposed of. It is comprised of edited imagery taken from advertising for electronic goods mixed with images of illegal electrical waste dumps where the technology all too quickly ends up.
E-Waste
The UN estimates that some 20 to 50m tonnes of e-waste are generated worldwide each year, comprising more than 5 percent of all municipal solid waste. The fate of large quantities of this so-called e-waste is unknown. Much is exported, often illegally, for dumping in Africa or for rudimentary recovery in Asia, where workers at scrapyards are exposed to toxic chemicals when the products are broken apart and as water, soil and air are polluted.
Complete Wasters
This picture was partly inspired by this group who i did some voluntary work with last summer. http://www.completewasters.co.uk/
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