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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

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Producer Howard Bradburn
Producer Howard Bradburn
Reporter Raphael Rowe
Reporter Raphael Rowe

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