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00:05 As time progresses, computers, smartphones and other electronic devices
00:08 have become an indispensable part of our lives.
00:11 But they also add to the problem of electronic waste.
00:14 According to the United Nations,
00:15 in 2023, the average person in the world will produce 8 kg of electronic waste.
00:20 This means that the amount of electronic waste thrown away in a year will reach 6,130,000 tons,
00:25 which is equivalent to the weight of more than 6,000 Eiffel Towers.
00:28 Electronic waste is increasing, and the first country to do so is Africa, which imports electronic waste for a long time.
00:34 Kenya is also a pioneer in electronic waste.
00:38 Although Kenya is now flooded with electronic waste,
00:41 these abandoned electronic devices are also like a gold mine waiting to be mined,
00:45 and have become one of the livelihoods of the locals.
00:48 Waste piles up like mountains, from household waste to industrial waste, etc.
00:54 are thrown away at will, but these waste are the treasures of others.
00:57 This is a waste dump in the interior of Kenya, and it is also a place where many people live.
01:02 Every morning, they wander through the ruins,
01:04 picking out what they can sell in the garbage, except for him.
01:08 He is looking for electronic waste,
01:12 and this job is actually very dangerous to human health.
01:15 When the electronic waste comes here, we still have to deal with the waste.
01:18 The waste is still in our hands,
01:22 because we can't throw it away.
01:25 Even if we throw it away, it will be thrown away.
01:27 Abandoned electronic devices and components can be recycled and sold.
01:31 In order to prevent precious resources from being wasted,
01:33 the local recycling plant works hard to dig up the remaining value of electronic waste.
01:36 It uses repair, refurbishment, and disassembly of parts to deal with electronic waste.
01:40 We take inventory of the items,
01:43 and if there are items that maybe have data,
01:45 we will do the data wiping to make sure that your data is safe.
01:49 And then we are going to come and check and test it
01:52 to see whether it can be reused or repurposed and things of that sort.
01:55 If it cannot, then it is disassembled into the different component parts.
01:59 Electronic waste is like a gold mine waiting to be mined.
02:02 The United Nations estimates that tens of billions of dollars worth of metal and raw materials
02:05 are thrown away every year in the form of electronic waste.
02:08 In Africa, only less than 1% of electronic waste is recycled.
02:11 There is still a long way to go to keep these precious resources from being thrown away.
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