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Dirty Business, Part One | |
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Vast amounts of waste are exported daily from the industrialized world to developing countries - all in the name of recycling. But much of this trade is illegal, dangerous and environmentally disastrous to the countries that receive it. | |
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This series produced for the BBC World Service begins in India. Liz Carney reports on the controversy over the dismantling of ships, known as ship breaking. Environmental groups argue that asbestos-riddled ships are toxic waste -- and that they’re dumped on India as a cheap place to scrap them. But ship breakers say their yard meets health and safety standards. |
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The BBC’s Liz Carney reports from Lagos, Nigeria, where some 400,000 second hand computers are imported every month. Three-quarters of these computers cannot be re-used. The discarded machines, many from Europe and the U.S., are dumped on roadsides and waste land in Lagos, with toxins leaching into the environment. |
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| Click here to listen to more documentaries in our series on “Dirty Business.” |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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