Comments on: Ghana tra$h shore – the pix http://everydaytrash.com/2009/03/02/ghana-trah-shore-the-pix/ A closer look at what we throw away. Sat, 26 May 2012 13:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Euro e-waste ends up in West Africa « everydaytrash http://everydaytrash.com/2009/03/02/ghana-trah-shore-the-pix/#comment-14041 Mon, 16 May 2011 20:10:20 +0000 http://everydaytrash.com/?p=1911#comment-14041 [...] in writing his book Skräp. Here’s a link to Vic’s interview with Hagberg and to a photo slideshow published later by a Swedish [...]

]]> By: Leila Darabi http://everydaytrash.com/2009/03/02/ghana-trah-shore-the-pix/#comment-7698 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:07:54 +0000 http://everydaytrash.com/?p=1911#comment-7698 Wow, thanks for sharing these, Victor. It’s such an added-value to everydaytrash to have you posting from Sweden and finding items unknown to us in the states.

It’s harrowing to see Western electronics end up in someone else’s backyard. Kudos to Mattias Hagberg for bringing some attention to this issue and to Karl Melander for those haunting photos.

A couple years ago I visited the slave castle (now a museum) in Elmina, Ghana and was upset on the walk there to see so much trash on the shore:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darabi/1831289314/in/set-72157602855566567/

]]> By: Please look at these photos « Leave Only Footprints http://everydaytrash.com/2009/03/02/ghana-trah-shore-the-pix/#comment-7697 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:24:16 +0000 http://everydaytrash.com/?p=1911#comment-7697 [...] 2, 2009 with thanks to everyday trash. Visit her site for more info, interviews and a slide show. Its something everyone should read [...]

]]> By: polythenepam http://everydaytrash.com/2009/03/02/ghana-trah-shore-the-pix/#comment-7696 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:17:16 +0000 http://everydaytrash.com/?p=1911#comment-7696 thats really bad – thanks for the info

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