Third World Is Brought Home ; a Computer Monitor Which Once Belonged to Derbyshire Police has Been Found Thousands of Miles Away - at a Scrapyard for Electronic Waste in Ghana Where Children Risk Their Lives to Make a Living. Chris Jones Reports.

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IT IS an illegal trade that campaigners say is damaging the health of Third World children - a trade that has now been brought uncomfortably close to home.

Obsolete electronic items such as computers and televisions are meant to be safely recycled in the UK but they are turning up in African scrapyards.

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Third World Is Brought Home ; a Computer Monitor Which Once Belonged to Derbyshire Police has Been Found Thousands of Miles Away - at a Scrapyard for Electronic Waste in Ghana Where Children Risk Their Lives to Make a Living. Chris Jones Reports.

Evidence of a link between the scrap and Derbyshire was uncovered by a French TV team. They filmed children poring over old parts in Ghana, and spotted a computer monitor clearly ...

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