Journeyman Pictures - 2016-07-11
The E-Waste Curse: The deadly effect of dumping E-waste in Pakistan Pakistan has become an illegal dumping ground for some of the 50 million tons of e-waste created each year. Karachi's poor earn a living from the toxic detritus, but the vicious cycle of consumption could prove fatal. In Pakistan, the massive arrival of electronic waste has created an informal substance economy that feeds 150,000 people. The country's poor salvage what they can from the cast-offs of the electronic revolution: copper, steel, brass. Nassir is one who has cashed in on the opportunities found in old cables and hard-drives. "It’s a good business. I have more and more work", he says. Yet workers pay the price for a few grams of copper; 4 million people die every year because of electronic waste and recycling workers have the lowest life expectancy in Pakistan. In his recycling shop, Akhbar earns 2€ on a good day. It feeds his family of six, but his health has suffered. "This job is dangerous. It’s very toxic". And the toxic legacy is far-reaching - "It’s a catastrophe...especially for the children", warns Saba, an activist for the WWF. "They will continue to live here and be poisoned, it’s dangerous for them and it’s dangerous for the next generations". In our relentlessly consumerist world, can the global poor be saved from the toxic trade in e-waste? For similar stories, see: Pakistanis Are Pinning Their Economic Hopes on Upcoming Elections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVBjVxtEg0 Ordinary Pakistanis Live Under the Thumb of the Taliban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaAsRzFsJQ Is Pakistan Protecting The Taliban? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3d_6XZosSE Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6832/the-e-waste-curse Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Wild Angle Productions – Ref. 6832 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
Very poor translation and purposely mistranslated to make it even more coarse and dramatic.. For example at 11.00 the man say 'here people work and here is the place where people get their sustenance from..' the translator says..'this is where people work and people die'.
@47 doesn't look exaggerated! Third world country government It is sad though! Governments fault! Really sad!
@Nadine Blake Open your eyes and look at the bigger picture Nad. And FYI I haven't actually put my 'story' out there per se, so there's no substance to your assertion.
agreed
Abu Dharr: blah blah
10:05 Am I a Joke To You?
Not our problem..
Meanwhile eco friendly companies like Apple are doing whatever they can so that repair shops cant repair their products and you need to buy a new one.
This is why we need right to repair acts.
Pretty much all went downhill fast after JFK was taken
Apple is not at all eco friendly.
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Bill gates wipes his ass with hundred dollar bills while children die from cancer cleaning his waste .it would not hurt him to help 3rd world human beings
Apple is the WORST for our environment.
@Bruce Levine Bill gates "how many loaves of bread have you eaten in your life?"
Worse translation i have ever seen. Probably worse then the pollution itself
@Imad Wow. Okay, I now don't trust this documentary.
@warnpassion Hahahaha,, SLOBS the lot of them!!
@Syed Hateem it's short and too the point. They cut the things that aren't as straightforward as other thing is. I'd like to see u direct something like this... actually not being sarcastic. Imagine havin to expose yourself to that air just for the interviews tho
That is the worst comment ever. If you don't get the drift of what is going on, without being told precisely, word by word, then it just shows how you don't have common sense !. You do not need to have any translation to see the conditions these poor people are living and if you had common sense would know that these condition are extremely bad for your health and your life expectancy would not be long. It is always the old and children who suffer. As you seem to be told This is how the multi million/Billion companies get their profits by slave labour, which you can say it is, would you work for that amount of money
Thank you for warning the rest of us who would never have known!
Not even on the same level as Ghana e-waste heaps
Damn, the comment section is more toxic than the scrap recycling place in Karachi
@Melvinthedeathless .Melvinthedeathless Go meditate to Budda. He will save you from being misunderstood.
HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE
@Raul Epure Islamic countries are not big on educating the masses..Not one woman in the entire video.India is light years ahead.Oooops a old woman appeared..Islam is a stoneage religion..Proof elitists run the show
@DikoMan Well said..
@Brian Bey long read but I did...then it dawned on me."I will not waste my life anymore being curious about nonsence..I care about me and myself..Shithole Pakistan.Shithole 100%
They know the risks, they just do it to live, there's no other options damnit
Arthas93 troll
They should be farming..not stealing..
Dam it!......LEMON MARANNGGGG! MUUDDD!
The only option is to throw your trash into the river???
The only option is to pollute the entire city?? Screw everyone else, as long as you got your 20 cents right?!?
@Jerry C it is not a matter of being beyond what food can support. Food is not a limited resource. You can produce more if you have the knowlage land and capital. You can buy from the americans if you have the money. They are reduced to doing this because they are a low productivity society.
locals said something and subtitles are changing the meaning to make them look even bad.
banned shut up pig 🐷🐷infidel don't worry about us
0:08 looks like a clip from star wars when the jawas were scrapping droids
I noticed the well fed goat just chilling with a bin of fresh greens.
Think twice when you throw away your computers with personal data in hard drives :D
0:38 LOL, that GTA 5 cover in the background😆
23:30 “ internally displaced person “ lol
26:36 they have similarities with panda figure!..😂
wow, e-waste is money if you know to handle it.....
Costs of operating component-extraction recycling facilities make it unprofitable in countries which have laws for health, safety, and pollution. That's why it's done in third world poverty.
This comment section actually beats the documentary on exposing and displaying human decadence.
@MrChadwke I don't know what an "Oxy" actually is, although if it's something you know about it is probably for trailer trash like yourself. BTW ... When you click like on your own comment EVERYBODY can tell you did it, you retarded little man.
well, you are perhaps born in Asia, but you are commenting from your comfortable chair in some well developed country. ASSHOLE.
Osman Yousaf STFU dirt ball
Osman Yousaf think about what you said
Ignorante foreigner...
I'm Canadian and lived with 8 punjabi's while going to school. They treat the communal parts of the house like trash, just leaving garbage around anywhere, pissing on the toilet seat, leaving rotten food in the kitchen, throwing trash in the hallways. Yet they keep their bedrooms spotless.
It looks just india/pakistan. They don't care about how nasty the outside is, their mentality is it isn't their home/living space they don't need to look after it.
Jack the Asian world are dirty ppl ..none wash hands after they sht'
@showcase /// I will be very politically incorrect here and say that you are both shameless and irredeemable as is your entire lot/// --- Oh look at who is NOW being racist and hateful.... you've just lumped everyone in the West into a single catagory and denied them any foreseeable future... just because YOU don't like them... or Sir Clogg.
So isn't this the pot calling the kettle black? Looks like you got shot by your own gun.
yeah jack i live in us and ive seen these so called sikh with their turbans and shit they are infested with lice all over their bodies! a have never seen dirty people on earth like them!! i dated one sikh woman her name is jasminder kaur,hahaaaaa it was disaster bloody hell disaster!!!!!!!! when she undress then took off her knicker oooh jesus she was full of pubic hairs long enough to her toes!! with plenty of white lice flowing from her hairy pussy!! disgusting and it made me puke because she smelled like rotten cat and rats!! duuh how can any human being fuck a lady who is dirty more than a smelly pig??? fucking hell !! i kicked her arse and throw her her out of my hotel room!! fucking jasminder or pussysmellyminder or arseminder or navinder or sukhvinder or shit vinder¬! you sikh are all shitvinder and jasminder kaur pal sukshitvinder arse ass licker in hounslow and southall madha choodh!
Jeeze, so much ignorance and hate in these comments. You people need serious help.
@Ali Ali hey son dont worry your mother and sisters are also suffering from same lice problem . Lots of love from your daddy 😘
This documentary is not wholly objective. And the comments section here is fair evidence of the utter ignorance of the average westerner when it comes to our affairs.
24:08 the poor girl coughing brought tears in my eyes. I mean this is same in India China Bangladesh and other asian countries. No law no awareness by government. People suffering in sheer ignorance or lack of better jobs to survive.
He said thanks for the data and we will call you soon for virus removal.
Pound it with a hammer,soak it with used battery acid,then rinse into public drinking supply. What could go wrong ???
So, that's why my cup of Tea drink tastes like shit. :D
Hahaha ..👍
So-called 'slave law' fuels opposition
Yeah they’re calling my house from one of those computers telling me that they are the IRS
Pakistani scammers are chutiyas
That’s a really putrid insulting comment that’s not necessary. Don’t be so mean!!!.
Lol
You are a good dude..
I always play along with them for as long as possible and waste their time. Then I start asking them questions about why the IRS only hires employees with Indian accents. They are usually dumbfounded like they don’t even know they have accents. Then the cuss at me and I have a good laugh. Free entertainment.
You cant buy trash, throw it into your own well and then blame the original trash owner for your poisoned well.
If I bribe your politician to dump that shit near your house, then don't complain.
The original trash owner don't wanna accept it at all.
The self-driving electric car will add another product to the piles. Oh boy, it feels so good to save the planet..
with 10 dollars a family like theirs 10-15 including kids can live one month
just try to live one day a 4 member family in the west with 10 dollars
economic realities of food prices
E-Waste just like plastic isn't the problem IF there were facilities to properly recycle them AND those were used instead of dumping the waste into the ocean or onto poor countries who can't process it.
Of course E-Waste is stacking up by the rate these people process it by hand. One european recycling facility probably processes as much waste per day as 10.000 pakistanis by hand in a week.
@jarrod1937 The usb ports, power jacks, on and off switches and batteries don't necessarily need to be user repairable, but repairs of such easily damaged components need to be easily performed by competent local technicians. To do so, the products have to have cases that can be opened without destroying them. I would wager over 60% of consumer products such as cell phones, tablets, e-readers that fail are because of these simple mechanical components. If you can't turn on or recharge your item, what good is it? Cutting open the case to do the repair makes it a suboptimal solution for consumers, from a price perspective especially since accessing a replacement casing from the manufacturer is usually impossible. Again, these items if not the circuit boards need to be serviceable by any competent technician. It would easily double the service life of all these items. The best kind of recycling is repair and continued use of a still function piece of equipment.
@bikingcat Tesla supported AC, Edison DC. Look it up.
@Scott Norman Rosenthal Uhm, did I state otherwise?
So why is the waste going up there?
@mrrichard57000 Because it is a scam. As the OP said a European recycling center does 10000x; yeah by burning it!
23:30 3 euros on medicine. That moment u realize u just wasted 25 euros on MacDonald's nuggets.
6:47 everything was nicely stacked 😭
4:26 I swear that sounds exactly like ICQ's startup foghorn sound.
17:15 Intro to 'Sleepwalk' :D
2:33 My Favorite Part of this video :o)
Globalist at their best....keeping countries poor, illiterate and in confusion
EnergyxPower its terrible.
call Microsoft support
if you call, you will get someone in India...Pakistan and India don't like each other.
Obviously there too poor for contraception you have to remember in these countries they have a different way of life the women obey their husband's and if they don't use condoms then obviously the women and up with multiple children plus your son's look after the family when you get too old to work. Sad really. When it's easily avoidable
@Varun reddy Yeah, you're clueless.
If you call support for anything in pakistan, your unqualified neighbor just may pick up.
Yeah i call Microsoft support... i call it crap!!
0:38 Well at least they got GTA V!
2:33 l😆❤️
They can easily make a nuclear reactor to power up the city for years and years to come
2:33 that Goat 🐐 tho
Oh shit, I was too distracted by what he said "PS2 keyboard" nice one
Nothing can be solved, without solving corruption.
And destroying islam
cant solve the problem of corruption without first tackling greed
@jode I think there are some groups within Islam that are NOT so evil, like in Saudi Arabia. Then again, I'm no expert. I personally think that ALL religion is damaging to girls/women. It's used to oppress women and empower men, we need to empower more women.
@Joe Rowland They go hand in hand.
And the world is full of bent corrupt bastards.
0:40 gta redlite ^ ^
letz häve ´´immies´´ and emi$ ^^
Dude I was able to see my Dell there!
Nassir: I have more and more work, but cant take care of my teeth
17:32 who would throw away that PSX :(
2:25 I have subtitles on auto generate english... "johar cheese coloured addict RK" ... kind of wanna keep them on now
After watching this, I appreciate my job much, much more now. As well as my life.
Good for you ,God bless you
Earlier or later it would affect you in whatever country you are in
12:53 He's talking about how toxic the metals in the environment are, and I can think of is "Holy shit, I want one of those things in my playground"
4:25 ICQ
😍😍😍Hmm Great Love THIS MARKET GREAT VIDEO 😍😍😍😊
23:58 that poor child is sleeping on the floor
This makes me hurt when i hear that people have to live like this
Komputar - 2017-07-15
The subtitles are misleading when locals are answering questions.
Jon Ross - 2018-12-17
@Timmy Dirtyrat Because they are pretending the locals are saying something they are not... Make sense?
Timmy Dirtyrat - 2018-12-17
+Jon Ross How do you know it's not just unintentional shitty translation?
Razaullah K. Durrani - 2018-12-21
@Timmy Dirtyrat If you can understand Urdu, it's seems pretty obvious that it's not unintentional. Not only have meanings of sentences been changed but the translation often ignores something they said completely or adds a complete sentence that they never said.
Timmy Dirtyrat - 2018-12-21
+Razaullah K. Durrani What are they really saying?
Chris Smith - 2018-12-26
We have to put our trash somewhere. I think Pakistan is the best place to put it. It's the most useless place on the planet and the people are of no value to human kind.