Imran Mansoori kneels in an alleyway picking over a tangle of electronic trash. He's one of thousands of e-waste workers in India's capital, Delhi, which has emerged as one of Asia's biggest e-waste processing hubs. People sit and work without any safety precautions such as gloves, masks and so on. Priti Mahesh, Toxics Link Much of the junk on Imran's pile is familiar – the shell of a TV remote, a shattered Wi-Fi router and a squashed credit/debit card reader. This is the graveyard for countless electronic gadgets. The grimy lane where Imran works is strewn with the debris of the e-age. One shop is packed to the ceiling with those familiar rectangular steel boxes that house computers...
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