essential. smartphones washing machines tv's and conditioners those who can afford them rarely choose to go without and indeed for a few years at least they can make our lives easier. but then. this year alone forty eight million tonnes of electrical waste will be produced worldwide that sounds like a lot. in fact it's four thousand eight hundred times the weight of the eiffel tower in just one year. and what happens to all these old broken machines well a significant proportion gets shipped to west africa just scrap yards in countries like gum or. just waste scrap. situated on the outside. it's of ghana's capital accra it's often