On the first day of classes, students and staff at Jordan High School in Watts were rattled by an explosion at a neighboring scrap metal recycler, according to officials. In recent years, Jordan students and staff have complained that school grounds have been pelted with metal projectiles and coated with metallic dust due to Atlas’ operations. In December 2002, the …
Getty Images / WIRED Every weekday, Ibrahim wakes up at six in the morning. Ibrahim is working as a “burner boy” – the name given to the young boys and men who trawl through piles of electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, a vast dump near the centre of Ghana’s capital, Accra, looking for circuit boards and wires to burn. Like the …
