We spent a couple of days at the Agbogbloshie e-waste dump which is currently the biggest e-waste dump worldwide. It serves as a final destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste from industrialized nations. Often referred to as a “digital dumping ground”, millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year in Agbogbloshie.
The dumping ground is quite centrally located in Accra.
We salvaged harddrives and will reanimate them in upcoming workshops for a new project we are working on.
![Agbogbloshie e-waste dump, Accra, Ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-18-at-1.49.50-PM.png)
![Agbogbloshie e-waste dump, Accra, Ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-18-at-1.50.35-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-10-at-3.07.47-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-09-at-4.03.13-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-09-at-4.01.55-PM-1024x681.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.26.49-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.27.16-PM.png)
![Accra, Ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-10-12-at-6.51.25-PM.png)
![Accra, Ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-10-12-at-6.48.25-PM.png)
![Le pleasure / Labadi beach in Accra after rainfall](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-10-12-at-6.47.59-PM.png)
![Le pleasure / Labadi beach in Accra after rainfall](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-10-12-at-6.47.35-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.29.14-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.28.18-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.27.48-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-21-at-3.27.29-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-08-at-1.58.20-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-08-at-1.56.17-PM.png)
![Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman, kairus.org, e-waste, electronic waste, ghana](http://kairus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-08-at-1.47.30-PM.png)