Investigation into the illegal networks recycling toxic waste that ravages our environment and endangers the health of the African children collecting it. The increasingly abundant components of toxic waste from our telephones, computers and TV sets end up in the open-air dumps of Ghana and Kenya, where children, surrounded by deadly fumes, collect, burn and dismantle them. How will they survive tomorrow, now that some industrials are starting to set up toxic waste treatment plants to get the most out of this waste locally ?

[Bardonnex]: Various shots of cars passing truck carrying the scanner Customs (20 ") / Customs showing image scanner car containing goods / itw BACHAR, Michel, spokesman for Customs Administration (truck exporting cars to the Africa and containing electronic equipment) / Customs various shots that get cars and searching / Customs photographing welded doors and forcing doors / customs seizing screens and electronic equipment. Customs {} {} {recycling electronic equipment }; 10:04.01 [Accra], {} discharge opencast Agbogbloshi: various shots of people digging and carrying away waste electronic parts / itw ANANE, Mike, a journalist specializing in environmental (wetland transformed into landfill include transport networks to Africa) / burning Africans carcasses plastic televisions emitting black smoke (20 ") / ANANE Mike showing two computers from Swiss owned Switch / ANANE Mike calling in Switzerland academic network Switch to Swiss research. {Recycling} {electronics}} {pollution; 10:09.11 [Ecublens] recycling company Thevenaz-Leduc SA: itw Bleší, Roger, Director (very expensive to recycle) / short shots workers dismantling electronic equipment and motherboards / itw SCHAER, Sandra, Trade (funded by taxes, recycle waste). {Recycling} {electronics}; 10:11.13 [SWITZERLAND] itw KAMBA John, exporter of electronics (I exported all you rid, longer service life in the South, its origin material, container seized and returned, not export waste) / KAMBA Jean showing equipment, objects of everyday life and computers. {Electronics} {Export}; 10:14.59 [Geneva]: various shots before discussing Africans used cars / itw Boby, car salesman (destinations cars and goods on board) / Ayoub, Sami, operator, showing fridges (down here, repaired there, doors are welded to prevent incoming flights, Nigerian via Benin, 10 trucks per week). Used car {} {} {export electronic equipment}; 10:18.01 [Antwerp]: itw DIRKX, Annik, spokesman for the Port of Antwerp (dock for export of cars, the problem of closed containers) / various shots parked cars / hardware to int cars / customs control container / Customs testing TVs / itw OF STROOPER, Marc, technical controller Ministry of Environment of (criteria of hardware and electronic waste) / itw VERSTRAETEN, Frans, Auditor of Customs (impossible to control everything, 2% of exports). Export {} {} {electronics} {port} customs; 10:22.40 [GHANA] {port} Tema: containers on port / itw ANANE, Mike, a journalist specializing in the environment (risk of importing toxic waste ) / boat dock / video hidden camera wholesale market on the harbor between retailers and wholesalers electronic equipment (30 ") {import} {electronics}; 10:23.57 [Accra]. CRT TVs presentation to a box / walking showing computers televisions, microwave ovens / itw GBEYIE Kaa She, seller (some must be repaired, customer does not test before buying, he knows that the TV may not work) / various shots of an open market selling only electronic equipment / sellers and repairers tinkering devices / itw Abubakar, repair phone (can fix anything, all brands) / itw Ernest seller (people of Europe brings phones ) / various city maps (30 ") / on the beach, Ghanaians using mobile phones (30") {electronics}} {street scene;. 10:27.58 [Accra], {open} discharge of 'Agbogbloshi: itw ANANE, Mike, a journalist specializing in the environment (all computers are the same containers, it is a crime, health effects on children) / boys breaking screens cathode tubes containing lead (20 ") / children burning to recover copper cables with highly insulating foam furnace releasing thick black smoke (20") / itw child (going to school, but trying to make money) / itw Junior ( wants to study but must pay for his studies) / itw Michael (parents know what is done) {electronics} {} {toxic waste pollution}; 10:33.00 [GHANA]. itw Joshua (abandoned by his father, problem healthy eyes) / Joshua living on cardboard on a roof / various slums shots with families (20 ") / itw population for a pharmacist (health problems) / itw pharmacist (with children). Electronic equipment {} {} {pollution toxic waste} {disease}; 10:35.33 [GHANA] polluted water (15 ") / DOKU Albert, fisherman (no fish fishing) / fisherman throwing net feet in the sea / itw AMISA, Oko, fisherman (the water is polluted, the fish is bad) {water pollution toxic waste} {} {} {electronics} fisherman; 10:37.21 [Accra]. itw Pwamang, John agency environmental protection (metals in the blood of children) {disease} {electronics}; 10:38.38 [Ecublens] recycling company Thevenaz-Leduc SA:. itw SCHAER, Sandra, Trade (components recyclable used in each product, value of mobile phones) {} {electronic equipment recycling}; 10:40.11 [Antwerp] company Umicore. various shots of workmen at the foundry furnaces / various liquid metal flowing shots ( 15 ") / gold grains out of a tube (10") / itw VERMEERSCH, Evelyn, spokesman Unicore (100 tons of gold per year, very profitable to recycle, "urban mining") / bunch of circuits printed electronics {} {recycling} {or}; 10:42.15 [Accra], {} discharge opencast Agbogbloshi:. itw Joshua, child, collecting PCB (needs 2 pounds before selling ) / heavy commercial waste collected by children and paying / itw Joshua buying hidden trade meal / itw HAMIDOU, Mounkaila, showing the value of recovery circuit (work adventurer, the Chinese wind) / video camera . printed by Chinese electronics {} {} recycling circuits; 10:46.22 [city Geneva]: itw GUILCHER, Hervé, director of the environment # # Hewlett-Packard (HP) (agreement with major manufacturers , Nokia, Philips and Dell, consider waste as a resource and do a clean and sustainable business in Africa) {electronics} {recycling};. 10:47.48 [Mombasa], computer recycling center in Africa East: itw CROSBY, Alan, Director of Operations YERFs (circuit) / workers removing computers / itw Truscott, Robert, President of Reclaimed Appliances (need 100 collection points) / itw MWANIA, Nicodemus, collector Kenyan providing electronic cards (picks up on landfills, telling people not to burn) / itw Munene Samuel National Environment Directorate (authorities do not have the means to treat hazardous waste.) {} { recycling electronic equipment }. rn / / used car / discharge / toxic waste / customs / import / export / disease / electronic equipment / gold / fisherman / pollution / water pollution / port / waste recycling / street scene / Accra / Antwerp / Bardonnex / Ecublens / Geneva / Geneva city / GHANA / Mombasa / Plateau / SWITZERLAND / Hewlett-Packard