Track My Trash

May 16, 2011 on BBC One at 8:30 PM

Summary

How does a broken TV thrown out at a council site in London end up 3,000 miles away on a toxic dump in West Africa where children scavenge for metal waste in a cocktail of poisonous fumes? Using tracking equipment inside broken TV sets, Panorama inv... (more)estigates the illegal market in electronic waste - and the recycling companies whose green credentials may not be all they claim.

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Guest stars

Raphael Rowe