Our garbage in Africa (World 2025, by Klaus Petrus) - Swiss Press Award

Klaus Petrus
Rinder auf der Müllhalde von Agbogbloshie, eine der grössten Müllhalden der Welt, am Stadtrand von Accra, Ghana, 27.4.2024.
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2025
Klaus Petrus
Millions of tons of old cell phones and laptops from Western industrialized nations end up in Ghana's one of the world's largest landfills. There, thousands of workers extract every last drop from the electronic waste—a tedious, dirty job that costs the men and women their health and pollutes the environment with pollutants.