"High Tech Trash"

In Chris Carroll's "High Tech Trash" article talks about how all of our old electronics like computers, laptops,dvd players, vhs players, ipods etc. well pretty much everything that is digital and metal; are being piled up and shipped to all of the poor countries in this case she talks about Accra,Ghana. The reason why we are shipping all these high tech trash is because shipping cost less than disposing of these items ourselves. Piling up high tech trash in one place and esposing it to rain, to the sun and other substance can be dangerous an sometime hazardous due to all the chemicals that is producing which can cause illnesses or diseases to the people in that area. As Carroll states "Chocking, I pull my shirt over my nose and approach a boy of about fifteen, his thin frame wreathed in smoke. Karim says he has been tendin such fires for two years" she describes how strong the smell of high tech trash combined can produce. Also how Accra people such as children go into the piles of high tech trash looking for copper and also gold wires or anything that could be of value to them they take it and sell it to gain profit out of them. Is like one of the well know quotes which says "One mans thrash is another masn treasure" which for them is a blessing to have such technology.