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Electronic waste export to Nigeria.

Faces seen through a broken television in Alaba Electronic Markets Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa.

New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China...Faces seen through a broken TV..The shipment - TV-set originally delivered to municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products - was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS (Global Positioning System using satellites), GSM (positioning using data from mobile networks to triangulate approximate positions) and an on board radio frequency transmitter (used for making triangulations in combination with handheld directional receivers used by team on ground) is placed inside the TV-set. The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416.

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Kristian Buus
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TV chase in Lagos - Britian's export of e-waste.
Faces seen through a broken television in Alaba Electronic Markets Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa. <br /> <br /> New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China...Faces seen through a broken TV..The shipment - TV-set originally delivered to municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products - was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS (Global Positioning System using satellites), GSM (positioning using data from mobile networks to triangulate approximate positions) and an on board radio frequency transmitter (used for making triangulations in combination with handheld directional receivers used by team on ground) is placed inside the TV-set. The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416.