phones and tvs go to die, well, every year our planet generates over 50 million tonnes of electronic waste. the problem is thingsjust don t last as long these days. take phones, for example. the entire industry seems geared around us replacing our handset every couple of years or so. but only about a quarter of that e waste is properly recycled. and that s really bad because our devices contain potentially toxic chemicals. well, michael kaloki has been looking at how one company is trying to combat this in kenya. this is dandora. this community on the outskirts of nairobi is home to one of the largest dump sites, not only in kenya but east africa. although it was declared full 20 years ago, over 800 tonnes of garbage is still dumped on this sprawling 30 acre site every day. and in recent years, an increasing proportion of this is e waste. men, women and even children scour the stacks of waste for discarded electronics, breaking them apart for their motherboards, batteries, wi
has to impress you. i had a radiation test done a few years ago and i came back through custom, not custom. they were able to say i had a radiation treatment and the radar star went off. that impressed me. that s good security. with all the complaints that people have and many legitimate with tsa, you haven t seen your business drop off as a result. people still fly. sure. the plane are 82%, 83% fulfill we re paying more money. we want to be jet setters and we want it cheap. it is pretty hard to find a real good deal but there are some out there. tom parsons, very much fresh your time and expertise. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that s true. .but you still have to go to the gym. the one and only, cheerios
a day before you were able to make contact with your wife back home in america. that must have a pretty emotional moment when you got through. it was. and actually we were only able to talk just for a few minutes. maybe two, two minutes. but all together, i spent approximately two days in refugee camps and, you know, made it home by taking takens and buses and trains taking taxis and buses and trains and walking long distances to reach certain locations. it was definitely quite a harrowing experience. finally, have you been testing for radiation since you got back? yeah. that was one of the first things that i did when i returned home. i was able to go out to the idaho national laboratories, and they did a full body count radiation test to verify that i hadn t ingested a particle or had any particles on me or
that i did when i returned home. i was able to go out to the idaho national laboratories, and they did a full body count radiation test to verify that i hadn t ingested a particle or had any particles on me or received large doses of radiation. and after we did the series of tests that came back clear on all of them, that was a a large sigh of relief both for myself and my wife. and my family and friends. well, there aren t many people who survive an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear crisis like the one you did, chris hope. and i think it s great to have such an inspiring and happy ending amid all this despair that we ve been seeing and reading about. so great to have you back. next, more from my exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his tough talk about the palestinians and their response. we re america s natural gas.