Author: Elizabeth Roche, AFP, Discovery News

  • India’s Poor Risk ‘Slow Death’ Recycling E-Waste

    Young rag-pickers sifting through rubbish are a common image of India’s chronic poverty, but destitute children face new hazards picking apart old computers as part of the growing “e-waste” industry. Asif, aged seven, spends his days dismantling electronic equipment in a tiny, dimly-lit unit in east Delhi along with six other boys.