Why Teens In India Hunt For Old Electronics At Toxic Dumps | Risky Business
Around 50,000 people, many of them children, spend hours recovering gold, copper, and platinum from devices at the largest e-waste landfill in India.
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India is the Biggest Dumping Ground for E-Waste. Here's How Teens Recycle It | Risky Business
We often forget this is the real cost of cheap electronics
What about prestigious electronics by Apple? They produce the same waste
Ideally, the cost of 100% recycling should also be included in the price that the end customer pays.
@@Gadavillers-Panoir Or businesses that make the products in the first place should be responsible for having donation centers within their store where they recycle it and not charge consumers for doing so.
：（we're goner now... Still have chance!
There nothing wrong with cheap electronics, it just people dont want to recycle it properly
As with many of these documentaries, it seems the main issue is governments/countries not doing anything about mass waste that's burying and poisoning their people, all while getting paid by companies that paid to have no responsibility over the major negative effects of their selfish and corrupt business practices. It's turned into "legal" mass pollution but the only ones affected (and blamed) are the poor and ignored. Why are we still allowing companies to pay to get their way? And why are we electing people who are sponsored by them? It's all money and greed.
the main issue is always the human and individuals' responsibility.
@@zsomborerdesz3364 how is it the individuals responsibility? That's nonsense - it's giant mega-corporations and government inaction that is responsible. Individual action will never ever be enough to undo the damage and waste done by these giant corporations. Individual action is nonsense made up by the fossil fuel industry to shift attention and blame away from the creators of the pollution, and onto the consumer who will never be able to make enough of a difference individually to ever make up for the destruction and havoc caused by the ones doing the polluting in the first place.
It’s always been like this
Developing nations have no regulations. And when they do they can be easily paid away with bribes.
because tech companies thought that recycling was expensive and lengthy process
India can actually make some money out of this of course by not making these 9yr olds work for them, but by creating an actual industry for recycling electronics if it's a dumping ground for e-waste.
India has already implemented those in many cities like Indore the wastes are seperated from beginning and then degradable waste are used as compost and non degradables are used in cement factories in making roads. The main reason those are operated illegally Why they are collecting e waste on train tracks because when they snatch phones from running trains mostly it fells and broke down and have no use so they sell them in gaffar market which is phone market for 3$ 240 rupees. It's just that every story has face shown by narrator.
That's actually true in one way, but still waste management in india is not really good, especially for such a populous country
@@iamhritikjha This is truth nowadays not questioning government and blaming on individuals They are not snatching they are collecting waste phone near railway track because in India there is no waste management every thing end's up on roads and railway track
@@aiyan72 Lol even I'm Indian and I know what exactly ends upon railway tracks. No phones with motherboards are thrown out on railway tracks and no one pays 600 for a dead motherboard Truth is the waste management has much better in India shown in that propaganda video but no worries UK will burn their ass just ranting on India and still we are growing better than before
@@iamhritikjha wow
Right to repair, abolishing planned obsolescence, and giving them screwdrivers could potentially alleviate this problem. Also if they learned what the components are, they could sell it for more, with less risk instead of trying to reduce it to base metals
I'm crying inside to see this...
Right to repair and abolishing planned obsolescence would keep some of it from ending up there but it's not going there if it's fixable
It provides them livelihood. You guys think about climate change... future and other nonsense but there are people who are thinking about their present.
@@Dr.Kay_RDo you think better equipment and knowledge is not going to make their job easier, safer, and more profitable?
Give them gloves too and eye wear and mask too
In my area the grabage guy takes 100 Rs per house. He easily makes more than a 4 lakh per month and contributes nothing to recycling. Because he dumps everything in landfill all together. Reason being he cannot be questioned by common people. The authority takes a cut, MLA takes a cut and he earns.
Companies have to make devices more easy to recycle.
Ideally every component/sub-component in a device should be made to be recyclable.
@@Gadavillers-Panoiryeah but it will increase production price a will leads to costly products that result in less profits for companies it will take so much time for a company to become eco friendly hope they become soon
The more repairable and upgradable an electronic, the less company make profit
iPhone is the opposite of this
@@bread_enjoyer Yes and even with the new M1 Chips where everything is solder to the motherboard , ram , and storage. You can't upgrade or replace. Apple is the worst company ever.
The tech giants and OEMs should design a whole recycling pipeline and setup facilities to carryout the recycles, everytime they design a new use-and-throw product!
That landfill looked like it was in the CENTER of that city, how gross is that?? Put it on the outskirts of the city like most cities do. Why put it there in the middle of where people are living??
That part was not the centre of the city However it's the people who chose to dump waste in rivers instead of dumping with proper waste. As they don't have any license which is required as per government they choose not to do proper waste management as they'll be on the eye of the government. That area (seelampur) is full of leather industries and all which dumps tons of rotten skins and dyes into the river.
Sad
I went there a few years ago with a scientist friend of mine and I can tell you that place smells worse than you could ever imagine. All sorts of waste ends up in the river, dyes, acids, sewage, oils and of course heavy metals
Dead bodies too!
@@sktoh4469 yeah that's common. I saw skulls and burning funeral pyre a
looks like a great place for macdonalds
@@fidelcatsro6948 yerp 🤣🤣
which state?
Recycling is better than mining
our media wont cover this
I'm glad they banned plastic straws in Europe. I love saving the environment!
yes and you use paper straw, hidden they not tell you is the paper straw has ton of chemical in it, and you need to cut down trees to make the straw. they also ban single use bag, now you have paper bag, mean more tree need to cut..... you are ignorance
Paper straw cause more harm to the environment to then plastic one do.
@@formanga8871No it doesnt because it decomposes unlike plastic.The plastic harms animals.
@@GassedCider Do you know where paper straw come from?
@@formanga8871 Yeah tree's
Sad that some people have to live in such horrible and unimaginable conditions. Definitely thankful for my life.
Do like Singapore. Burn the whole damn thing, turn into ashes and dump into sea to create islands. Burning waste can create energy. The smokes can be filtered into clean air.
That could work for a country like Singapore where people are civilized and there's strict law. In India even folks who have been educated to a PhD level also don't have awareness on these concepts of waste management because simply there isn't any methodology even in metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi etc.
Fortunate people try to criminalise child labour but they often ignore the fact that its not a choice for everyone By employing a 14 year old if you are able to make a difference between a family eating or sleeping empty stomach Child labour lies in gray area and have to be treated with caution
A childs expenses should be supported by the Government and the community. It's the parents fault for bringing the child into the world if they couldn't support it.
@@gandhardessai8788lmao what? They only had one child. Blame government not people
One mans trash is another mans treasure. While the rich nations in the west easily throw away Electronic goods(even though one small part may need to be replaced for repair) we use it to make new ones. And we understand their issue as well that repairs are becoming way to costly grand example being Apple.
Yeah exactly. These greedy fucks could care less about anything but the bottom line.
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It’s a shame that we spent billions upon billions on stupid wars but can’t invest billions into ourselves to lift everyone out of poverty and together work toward a brighter future for us all
Bro slowly u see india become capitalism country. Every businessman Tata Ambani adani all are real culprit. They know all the stuff but still nothing do . They know about because poor People get cheap easily they know about
I wore away my finger prints when I was a pot washer in a restaurant.. that was over ten years ago and although they have come back a little bit still barely visible! I always jokes about being a bank robber l.. it's funny because some people actually believe it!
It's going to be real funny when the police and courts believe it and convict you of a crime you haven't even committed...
Bro kitchen gloves cost like $4. Why didn't you just buy some basic gloves??
Some closet and a section of my garage looks like e-waste dumping ground. I have been responsible about this issue and have restricted electronic purchases for years and practicing RRR since childhood, I can tell you everyone from bottom to top is incompetent and utterly irresponsible here in India. >The response of electronic companies Last year I contacted some e-waste management organization and few electronics companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, BBK, and few major electronic appliance retailers in my city and to put it briefly "ALL" of them refused to pick-up or let me drop those electronics even when I pleaded them that I won't take the rewards they usually promise for submitting e-waste to them, when I questioned them about why their e-waste pickup points are named such they were spinning their words and were unable to answer. >Government (municipality) said they'll throw them in landfills anyways. It would be salvaged by poor people like the ones in the video only after the waste is dumped first. Politicians don't even lie or make fake promises about waste management here that I could say "The government lied to me." >Now where do I even start with our sick consumerism and attitude towards waste management, people would flame anyone for stereotyping India, but that's not even a stereotype it's just true. >Rest is story, some of which are covered by external or small journalists which by default gets ignored. Everyone knows the solutions no one works on them even for themselves.
Yeah we were all doomed the moment, the industrial revolution started
Ohhh really first time I am seeing this thanks inside 💠 🤝
Buying a pair of gloves shouldn’t be any more then a shirt or pants
India needs startups in recycling ♻️
Scrap uncle
It's barely comprehensible that a sweet kid works this hard in India, while we have bratty teenagers by the boat load here in the west. Perhaps a little work/life exchange program might help a few of them learn the value of life. We just don't know how good we have it here in the west.
Before exchange program why don't u also make them learn ur history, not ur white washed history " we went there to civilise them"
Don't have kids if you can't take of them then.
God Bless Gulzar and his friends ❤
I feel for that gulzaar guy 😢may god bless him
me a eletrical car mechanic ...looks at his soft smooth hands as they talk about the cuts and bruises : rolls eyes
He is a kid, you are an adult
@@Dr.Kay_Ryou don't get the point.
Everything can be turned to profit! Every pease of garbage is a commodity! 1. Government provided locations and infrastructure. 2. Private initiative and cooperatives for colection of different parts and materials.
No it isn’t. Which is why peope don’t recycle it: it’s not worth it. The only reason these poor kids do it is because they’re so poor that it is worth it for them.
Throwing something away is easy. Recycling it is a different skill on its own.
Do you guys need burnol, It's recommend to play on burn areas. Also where is the source of information is? When it was recorded time and all? It's basic to provide the source and time, didn't it?
A basic set of tools, m ask and puncture proof gloves is all that is needed to make their work easier and safer for them.
The world is becoming like the earth in the movie WAL-E
I would ask my dad, who is from a "3rd world country," why every video like this depicts people in saddles, sitting on the ground to be interviewed and always in a squatting position while working. His reply: "It looks good for TV."
lol its not staged, its reality for more than 300 million people in India. Maybe your dad wants to forget where he came from
Squatting position is super common.
@@gatech5190 Yup, just a pretentious comment by a person who has no idea about the ground reality.
Ignorance is bliss for some.
@@gatech5190they went to some slums this is what they see. Let them go to the suburbs and homes there. Why always some slums!!
At the same time this very country put a rover on the moon. Means that money isn't the issue here. The government just doesn't seem to want to spend it on waste management.
Just see how less money we used to put our rover on it. Also I am not saying the problem is not there, I saying it was not that big of an issue as the video trying to make it. There is others things we have to worry about.
Because INDIA has 10 times more population than america. What would america do if all indians migrate to america . This would be the same situatuion there.
@@GowthamV07 oh, so because India has more people, it can't employ them to properly handle its waste?
EXACTLY! instead of helping their own PEOPLE, they throw all that money and resources sending a ship to the fking MOON!! like WE have already been there since the 1960s, we know whats there, be brought back samples, we dont NEED more pretty photos of landings and dead rocks and dust- they should focus on their PEOPLE first and worry about the moon LAST!
Putting a rover on the moon isn’t impressive in 2023. The U.S. and Russia did it 60 years ago.
Politicians and Private Sector failing miserably
Thanks to major electronics brands like Apple, Samsung and Sony etc, these equipments now are no more repairs friendly. You end up getting these gadgets dumped when they stop working and repair shops don't find it easy to fix them. These goons have ruined India and it's people's lives
Life in India was ruined even before electronics.
@@prajullas you're either too funny or too dumb to say that. India was the most self reliant country before the western world countries invaded it and looted with all the means possible. Electronics is not the subject, the eWaste is
You are right, the suppliers are not helping by making these appliances non-repairable. In most devices they are thrown away as soon as the battery fails. It can`t easily be replaced by the consumer. It`s a wicked waste, all in the name of profit!
"These goons have ruined India and it's people's lives" Well if you actually stopped and think you'd realise like the video and others like it say- they are scrounging the dumps for bits of copper and metals to sell to buy FOOD, so if you take that revenue source away they will not HAVE that scrap metal to sell to buy food with- they will STARVE. India has always been a craphole, too many people having way too many children they cant even feed! a large chunk of the people dont even have flush toilets!
My first laptop had a battery it lasted 10 years it was easy to get it out. Now new laptops have battery inside and I can't even remove it easy with a screwdriver because if I do it the metal around the usb ports will fold/break. I can t even get out the ssd to sell it
A lot of facilities are opening in india for recyling e waste. First we throw away our e waste but now the vendors come in villages for buying e waste and they give around 50 to 100rs for a dead phone.
Suparpawar sir🤣
Better than your sh!7h01e Bangladesh
I wanted to send my power bank in a recycling facility but unfortunately never found one.
blame the governments..they allow this to happen
You shift the video from a poor ewaste picker in india to the largest e waste processor in america what a transition. That is why we like to see insider casestudies. You go from bottom to top and top to bottom without any hesitation
From one of the FOUR HORSEMAN of civilizations to a keffel...just sad!!
I’ll take your old electronics any day!
76 साल में 60 साल सिर्फ लोगो को फ्री फ्री बाटकर वोट लिया गया फैक्ट्री का पैसा ,डैम ,नहर ,रोड ,नाली ,seavage का पैसा फ्री फ्री बाट दिया गया ,फ़ोन tv ac एयरोप्लेन तोप गन यही बन सकता था लेकिन फ्री फ्री फैक्ट्री का बिजली डबल रेट हो गया ,ऊपर से फैक्ट्री का टैक्स डबल जिससे समान महँगा ,चीन से मंगाना पड़ता है इतने महेंगी बिजली फैक्ट्री के लिए सस्ता समान बनाना impossible ,तेल गैस सोना सब बहार से
Gulzar is a handsome young man. He could be a model, for example. I wish him and his hardworking friends blessings and good fortune.
You don't gain respect from society by working in entertainment industry. You only earn respect as Engineer, Technologist, Lawyer, and Doctor. Period!
Seems like the first problem is general waste. Solve that and enforce it then everything will follow in line
It won't happen because it's too expensive to recycle electronics in western countries.
Still the eyes👁️👁️ of the boy was shining with hope✨✨ of becoming a police officer👮♂️.
India needs to clean up.
Listen to your mother. Education will give you a better chance at life.
& that educated produced more e waste
wow, India is really a one big cespool
Seelampur is the mini Pakistan of Delhi
If you ask me the phone or TV or computer is worth more than the 5 dollars
Goodjob, Government..😊
5:25 Out of B-roll? That isn't even e-waste
The US workers are doing the same thing...sorting waste manually except they're wearing gloves😂😂😂
Why work in such conditions. They should come to bomaby and live in vasai virar and they can get some decent job better then this.
India has become the world's largest dumping ground for electronic waste, with most of it processed and recycled manually, often by teenagers. E-waste contains toxic chemicals such as lead, arsenic, and mercury, but also valuable materials like copper, platinum, and gold. However, due to the complicated and expensive process of recycling, much of the e-waste ends up in landfills. In India's Seelampur neighborhood, nearly 50,000 people, many teenagers, scavenge through e-waste for old cellphones, computers, and video game controllers. The health risks are high, and many suffer from damaged hands and fingers. Although some facilities use modern machinery to process e-waste, most of the work is done by hand. Memory units, processors, screens, keyboards, and motherboards can be reused, and big hard drives pulled from computers or servers are another moneymaker. However, only 17% of electronics discarded globally were recycled in 2019, with much of it illegally shipped to developing countries, where it's handled by informal workers without the knowledge or tools to safely handle it. This is contaminating the environment and affecting the human body, leading to skin diseases, different types of cancers, and organ damage.
If they didnt have this to sell to buy food they'd starve, since THIS is what is paying for fod, Indias problem is OVERPOPULATION and people having 6,7,8,9 children they cant even feed and then they complain about their poverty!
i feel proud on india .. jai india
Beautiful Delhi ❤
Haizz, they always talk about their spaceship in the moon, but their people live a life like in some poor country
Theres 9 billion cell phones in use right now. Several times that are in the trash. Imagine all other electronics
I hope to god that these parts that are being taken out of an OLD device are being sold as USED parts even though I did NOT hear her mention that. So the $100 Motherboard I bought for my laptop was probably out of someone's junked laptop and I got it for a real bargain at $100 for something USED and was thrown away. WOW, what a fecking deal I got and it only lasted another 6 months. People, beward of used and NEW parts because I obviously got screwed front and back.
USED was probably WHY it only lasted 6 months, testing components to pass them doesnt mean they are any good, older electronics develop intermittent problems, similar to lead acid car batteries, after a bout 10 months my new NAPA battery would be dead in the morning, charging it up it would be fine for a week and then be dead again. NAPA checked it with TWO different battery check devices and both said the battery was GOOD. A couple of weeks later and 2 more dead mornings I bought a new battery and the problem went away, so despite the TWO testing devices saying it was GOOD, it obviously was not and the tests MISSED it.
They covered this in Futurama Season 7 episode 3....12 YEARS AGO.
At least they are off the streets and back on track.
thats why the theft mobile for PCB .
They are Bangladeshi not Indians...
Yeah thats why they are working and not reping tourists
Watching from india
@ 6:45 I think they have some bigger probablemente to solve than ewaste
The most effective solution is to lower consumption. Population control being the starting and most critical point besides other measures to be taken. But doesn’t look like governments would react as required.
Modi is on the take, like the vast majority of Indian civil serpents.
@@SimonTmtewhat India itself has surpassed China in population with 34% of the land area and has more than 4times population density than of US .Still you'll say we are in negative.Cost of living in Mumbai is approx 35% of new york while average income is of 10% than NY. Population control is the only key to save resources if we want to keep the earth habitable.
@@iamhritikjhamain thing is standard and expectation of living, in countries like India people are okay with low standard of living and they marry and have kids , if their desires were higher they wouldn't settle down until they have achieved those goals ,thats basically the difference between west and us mentally
@@drinkwoter mindset and living standard varies person to person we can't judge the whole population for a thought
All women( especially) who thinks of being single is good in their teens, 20's, early 30's realise they need kids towards late 30's early 40's when even IVF become unsure.. as their parents die, friends got away.. siblings (if there are) move away... no husband, bf's, kids... there will be a hollowness staring at them.. money, travel,hobbies, shopping cant fill that sadly, as humans are social animals.. they may endup in oldage homes with noone tp enquire abt them.. and die lonely -sadly -depressed... men are historically used to die lonely, they can be lone wolf.. its new to women.. even in europe lonely women getting to old age is now only happening and that's why indian and asian nurses go there to take care these lonely old aged people.. its staring indians too shortly
"One's Greed Another's Suffering "
Yep the Indian Computer famous Hacker, of the world, need there systems updated all the time. To hack better
Too much Success story of Chandrayaan-3 and India in general became indigestible by western media houses, so here they are to balance things out. Good job @InsiderNews for such a burning face. This adds even more success-hunger to our already success-hungriest country on earth 🕉️ 😉
And the worst part, they are the ones dumping here.
India is literally a toilet lmao .
Blame it on Englishman, isnt that the usual charade.
So they narrated the whole story on pickpockets who snatch phones by throwing stones at moving trains. Atleast put some effort of you're making a fake video who tf uses a stone to recycle motherboards near a railway track and who pays 3$ each for a e waste.
@@exgod1When US funded Taliban and Al-Qaeda for terrorism they were great until they got the taste of their medicine. It's just like the immigrants are great until they showed their face in Europe. Stop wasting your funds on those so-called soft hearted immigrants lover anti India sentiments. A cancer grown in the lungs won't take much time to spread to the whole body .
aleem may the god bless you man
I pay a “Recycling fee” in Canada as well as Carbon tax, 15% sales tax and 20% income tax. Glad to see that all these taxes add up to more rich people than ever before and the poor ending up with my waste because of mismanagement and corruption 👍 Hold these companies and governments accountable EVERYWHERE.
💪🇮🇳india💯superpower 🇮🇳💪
2020 🐂😂🤣
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why does MCD finds it so difficult to get hold of dump situation in city? how does garbage shipped to indian ports end up in delhi? indian press is supposed to ask these question but alas!
That's not the majority of the world's electronics
heartbreaking that tuberculosis is perfectly curable, Alim and his family don’t need to be working so hard and suffering, and his father could have been cured, if johnson and johnson gave up their patent on the treatments
He had tuberculosis but you dont know WHAT ELSE he had that isnt cureable that wasnt mentioned in the video like cancer, emphysema, liver failure.
Everything is curable go to school 😊@@HobbyOrganist
Western media will never stop comparing Asia
Only India
Why don't Indian government do anything about this wastes.. it's really very sad😢😢
That government doesn't give af
Because Brits are busy applying burnol and posting those videos
How many phones do people go through? I can count the number of cellphones i've had on one hand.
Maybe ask why people go through so many Phones. The main reason is Built-in obsolescence.
They need start cleaning them dishes pots pans from the food vendor
Why? India can send mission to dead a moon, but neglect her own living environment?
We doing our best buddy.
You can rest the assure the kid here not pamper n they are respectful n humble
My respect for these superheroes👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
God bless them❤
One reason can be increasing in privatisation of waste management attracting customers with competitive prices and ultimately these informal waste collectors coming to these toxic waste dumps.
Nothing more precious than people's health.😢
Not these people
Such is life … poor live to serve others… only a few rise. This is society almost everywhere in different forms
The same ones calling trying to scam u everyday
We generate our own waste so MUCH, and since that isn't enough we illegally import it to sniff, drink, and eat it... the most pathetic part is no one seems to care.
Been looking for a name of this narrator
A machine would do this job and make everything safer and cleaner. But indias import tariffs and red tape does not allow high tech machines to come into the country.
What if we add up the recycling price of every single electronic device with it mrp and company need to give that to the authorities for the process
Good for them in working hard, keep up the good work
What's going to become of worn / depleted batteries from electric cars?
They are recycled for the lithium and other metals
Who else thought their personal phone was ringing at 2:44 and had to pause their tablet? 😂
No fingerprints anymore.. The perfect criminal as a 3rd job..
The reporter was overexaggerating. The boy said he can't use his fingerprints to open his phone because his fingers get scratched; therefore, his phone doesn't recognize them.
@@theotheleo6830 that a lie, touch screen dont use finger print to operate, you can operate the phone using your nose 😅😅
@@jetli740 Fingerprints are used to unlock phones, genius.
@@theotheleo6830 he not using one of those high end phone, cheap phone finger lock are fake......
@@jetli740 Even low-cost phones have that feature nowadays.
environmentally friendly, good Hey Beavis, this dude makes money out of trash every day. Haha
At least they don't work at scam call centers!
6:17 SKY DONT LIE !