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Track My Trash

Using tracking equipment inside broken TV sets, Panorama investigates the illegal market in electronic waste - and recycling companies whose credentials may not be all they claim.

How does a broken TV thrown out at a council site in London end up 3,000 miles away on a toxic dump in West Africa where children scavenge for metal waste in a cocktail of poisonous fumes?

Using tracking equipment inside broken TV sets, Panorama investigates the illegal market in electronic waste - and the recycling companies whose green credentials may not be all they claim.

29 minutes

Last on

Tue 31 May 201100:45
BBC One Wales

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Credits

ProducerHoward Bradburn
ProducerHoward Bradburn
ReporterRaphael Rowe
ReporterRaphael Rowe

Broadcasts

  • Mon 16 May 201120:30
    BBC One
  • Thu 19 May 201104:30
    BBC News UK
  • Fri 20 May 201100:25
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Wales
  • Fri 20 May 201100:55
    BBC One Northern Ireland
  • Sun 22 May 201120:30
    BBC News UK
  • Tue 31 May 201100:45
    BBC One Wales