The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest

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8 жыл бұрын

The E-Waste Curse: The deadly effect of dumping E-waste in Pakistan
Pakistan has become an illegal dumping ground for some of the 50 million tons of e-waste created each year. Karachi's poor earn a living from the toxic detritus, but the vicious cycle of consumption could prove fatal.
In Pakistan, the massive arrival of electronic waste has created an informal substance economy that feeds 150,000 people. The country's poor salvage what they can from the cast-offs of the electronic revolution: copper, steel, brass. Nassir is one who has cashed in on the opportunities found in old cables and hard-drives. "It’s a good business. I have more and more work", he says. Yet workers pay the price for a few grams of copper; 4 million people die every year because of electronic waste and recycling workers have the lowest life expectancy in Pakistan. In his recycling shop, Akhbar earns 2€ on a good day. It feeds his family of six, but his health has suffered. "This job is dangerous. It’s very toxic". And the toxic legacy is far-reaching - "It’s a catastrophe...especially for the children", warns Saba, an activist for the WWF. "They will continue to live here and be poisoned, it’s dangerous for them and it’s dangerous for the next generations". In our relentlessly consumerist world, can the global poor be saved from the toxic trade in e-waste?
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@pflernak 5 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile eco friendly companies like Apple are doing whatever they can so that repair shops cant repair their products and you need to buy a new one. This is why we need right to repair acts.

@paulieheydrich9772 5 жыл бұрын

nipi tiri they fk their customers as much as they can

@TheEarthHistorysConfusing 5 жыл бұрын

nipi tiri I Never heard about this and never heard of a company fixing some product of theirs so you don’t buy another one. Never heard of it , they’re saying here oh it’s broken, you need to upgrade today as it cannot be repaired.

@smallerfreeze 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all went downhill fast after JFK was taken

@LaFonteCheVi 4 жыл бұрын

Apple is not at all eco friendly.

@brucelevine6517 4 жыл бұрын

N Bill gates wipes his ass with hundred dollar bills while children die from cancer cleaning his waste .it would not hurt him to help 3rd world human beings

@lastcrazyhorn 3 жыл бұрын

“I am not especially happy here.” That is rather obvious.

@abdharr3761 5 жыл бұрын

Very poor translation and purposely mistranslated to make it even more coarse and dramatic.. For example at 11.00 the man say 'here people work and here is the place where people get their sustenance from..' the translator says..'this is where people work and people die'.

@TCFan30 5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you have to exaggerate the story a bit just to grab people's attention. Anyone from the Western world wouldn't understand the difference in general of the plight of the situation.

@mccari09 5 жыл бұрын

Why would they say get their sustenance though? It makes more sense how it was translated

@TK-gm5zd 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing everyone the real side of Film/News

@unhappyattendantughh2469 5 жыл бұрын

47 I do. I just don’t care. We need to fix ours first. There are Americans living like this as well. It sucks, but you have to take care of your own.

@onekerri1 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe the products shouldn't be made so cheaply, therefore needing to be replaced so damn often!

@gmac4157 5 жыл бұрын

adds a whole new meaning to "one mans trash, is another mans treasure".

@Michel-7.7.7 3 жыл бұрын

Nope, it's exactly that

@jimmydcricket5893 3 жыл бұрын

@@lazaruskarl2629 Their what?

@tanayvaishnav3888 3 жыл бұрын

Pakistan's a fcked up place anyways😂

@crimsonrain9570 2 жыл бұрын

@@tanayvaishnav3888 India is much more worst

@Quraishy 5 жыл бұрын

Worse translation i have ever seen. Probably worse than the pollution itself

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

I wish people in the comments would tell us what is mistranslated.

@imad9447 5 жыл бұрын

Literally the worst. Even google couldve translated it better... in many places there are sentences the speaker didnt even say.

@SeaCowsBeatLobsters 5 жыл бұрын

Its all mistranslated. You don’t even need to understand the words to see.

@syedhateem4498 5 жыл бұрын

Mostly they r kind of censoring it so as to direct it their way, eg the fisherman in the end was saying something like that the fish dont come here because of cows shit and other waste which fill the shores or seaside but the translation was its because of pollution than the correspondent diverts the conversation and says what about the pollutant water coming out of the drains and than he says something like yes that also kills the fish. so mostly its like that and when people r supporting their work or claims it translated like we dont have any other way, please help us we r doomed etc when in reality they have said more things @jae lynn even the wwf workers shown here clearly shows they have less experience and its all propaganda type u can clearly see her smiling when the two r talking their language is also like its not natural its like the director or cameraman said heres what points we want out of the conversation say these things ok action. All of this could be shown in a better way but sadly this documentary was just selfish, i am all for showing problems n they have clearly shown them but dont censor things to prove just one point. Basically its not because of just e-waste but they choose to censor those things tunnel visioned viewer to their goal.

@warnpassion 5 жыл бұрын

Quraishy Worst English I have ever seen.

@Lynx0123456789 6 жыл бұрын

Damn, the comment section is more toxic than the scrap recycling place in Karachi

@melvinthedeathless.melvint6727 6 жыл бұрын

some folks can't handle unpleasant truths. some folks use this vid to belittle people of color. Most of these commentators just don't understand how privileged they are and don't appreciate the life they have.

@raulepure9840 6 жыл бұрын

This is a display an poorly and uneducated people who cant manage their lives properly E-waste is not so hard to recycle if is done by the book I dont like whinning eco-friendly type of documentaries that dont address the real problems

@phyoye2126 5 жыл бұрын

india should have to help pakistan people they are neighbour country and then they also have more better clean river

@adsmith364 5 жыл бұрын

It truly is.

@mattlane2282 5 жыл бұрын

like trump said.. SHIT HOLE COUNTRIES

@vitalie96 5 жыл бұрын

Ideally, those who produce electronics have to be responsible for its recycling.

@in-motus 5 жыл бұрын

But then about 150,000 lives in Karachi alone will be turned upside down, taking their jobs and 2 euros a day from them... So it's a double edged sword and it's not as straightforward as it seems.

@romoalex 3 жыл бұрын

You solved the problem

@tapand82 3 жыл бұрын

We humans are consuming way more than we require...put a environment levy on the cost of product which will make it automatically expensive reducing consumption at the same time the levy should be used to minimise the impact to environment caused by our consumption

@jamesmorgan3782 3 жыл бұрын

Surely some responsibility must fall on us consumers too.

@Misterprepper 3 жыл бұрын

Well let’s see where they come from, I bet that most come from the biggest champions of climate change reform

@mccari09 5 жыл бұрын

I’m literally sat shaking my head on my own watching this.. I’m so disgusted by humans. What have we done to our home... it’s so sad

@danielroth8738 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t get discouraged. Humanity has done great things as well.

@osmanyousaf7866 7 жыл бұрын

This comment section actually beats the documentary on exposing and displaying human decadence.

@Taporeee 6 жыл бұрын

Osman Yousaf Well said.

@bryanmoyna9715 6 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@factsarefactsanddonotlie8397 5 жыл бұрын

they are so poor they have a space program and they are the biggest nuclear proliferation in the world

@bryanmoyna9715 5 жыл бұрын

Now i get it.

@carlbole2142 5 жыл бұрын

Osman...Yep, thank God for our first world planned obsolescence consumerism! If not for our GREED, these poor people would have a field to grow food on, we do not want that...Wonder if the Yellow Vest(pro/anti climate change) movement watches these videos and comes to the same conclusion I have about Population(growth) and Pollution(wealth)...Anyway, what a prison!!!

@Komputar 7 жыл бұрын

The subtitles are misleading when locals are answering questions.

@hogtek2497 5 жыл бұрын

I’m reading the comments anyways

@irielion3748 5 жыл бұрын

Why use them then? Idiot.

@dgkwaffly6098 5 жыл бұрын

I think they meant the translations. You kinda have to use them if you don't know their language

@SomeoneCommenting 5 жыл бұрын

@@irielion3748 To make people think that they said that, when it is actually a propaganda message from the film producers.

@timmydirtyrat6015 5 жыл бұрын

How is that propaganda?

@superserial1 4 жыл бұрын

I recently inherited a desk at work with a really dirty keyboard. It took me a few tries but I finally got it cleaned. My other option was to ask IT for a new one. Kinda glad I didn’t after watching this.

@beaterbikechannel2538 3 жыл бұрын

@SCN definitely. I love the fact that the brakes on my mountainbike are over 20 years old and will now work for another 20 years. I love refurbishing, restoring and reusing old stuff.

@computername 5 жыл бұрын

The self-driving electric car will add another product to the piles. Oh boy, it feels so good to save the planet..

@arnowisp6244 3 жыл бұрын

Planet of the Humans points to this idiocy of "green solutions" being worst e-waste.

@poopywelder 3 жыл бұрын

Diesels ain't so bad after all eh

@EDARDO112 3 жыл бұрын

Especially that boy Elon would rather sell a new one than let you rapair your existent one

@alienandroid2012 3 жыл бұрын

Do you even know cars and batteries are recycled in the USA or do you just talk out of your tight asshole?

@es7nb 3 жыл бұрын

@@EDARDO112 first of all , i don’t think u have enough brain cells to judge Elon or say smth that he hasn’t even done yet , u better keep being dumb and quiet plz

@nunyerbeeznaz2906 5 жыл бұрын

Pound it with a hammer,soak it with used battery acid,then rinse into public drinking supply. What could go wrong ???

@RanaRandom 4 жыл бұрын

So, that's why my cup of Tea drink tastes like shit. :D

@expressfix 8 жыл бұрын

Recycling is a good business and better for environment, However the people who engage such job should have some training. Many electronic parts have very long life span that can be reused/ resurrected for better purposes. In the video recycling techniques are very primitive and reduces the yield dramatically. For example those toroid transformers are a lot more valuable than extracting the copper. 3 months training prior to recycling job will be very beneficial, recycling can be done most profitable way. Workers can make 12 to 18x more by working only 6 hours a day without fumes and toxic exposure

@reversal_of_expectation1457 7 жыл бұрын

hey. how can we get a training of recycling e-waste?

@osearthesp 6 жыл бұрын

bump

@Warrax22 6 жыл бұрын

But training cost money! ;)

@jjosetheman 6 жыл бұрын

Have someone go online and research. There is forums on the internet or chat rooms. I use KZfaq when I get stuck or google online a topic.

@pavelimani 6 жыл бұрын

But the muslim world is in general not good with or not interested in science.

@bluntman305 5 жыл бұрын

0:08 looks like a clip from star wars when the jawas were scrapping droids

@davejacobsen3014 5 жыл бұрын

Knowing that a large amount of metal is used in electronics, gold and silver, America is doing the same. Unhappily companies like Apple is passing them selves off as being eco friendly and selling their electronics to these countries like ComChina, an India. In China you can buy good parts to make iPhones but Apple does not allow these parts back to be used to repair their equipment.

@armstrong2450 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry but India also faces such problems. In Bangle industries , fireworks industries, etc. Nothing for us to laugh.. Because we too have to work a LOT..

@SSD-el2ko 6 жыл бұрын

4.526.433 views and what your mother shit gold

@nischalrana2447 5 жыл бұрын

@@kushagrapandey2466 true

@kushagrapandey2466 5 жыл бұрын

Kaustabh Ganguly lol bro you must be a hyper nationalist, I'm an Indian and india is a shithole. Don't brag about our shitty growth rate even bangaldesh and nigeria have 7+% growth rate. India is shit

@rolwindsouza9238 5 жыл бұрын

@4.526.433 viewsdaijiuorld

@muneebali8317 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@darthneph4900 7 жыл бұрын

Seriously.. We're so poor !!! Lets have 4 kids !!!!

@kamranbashir4842 6 жыл бұрын

Lol.. 4 kids are standard for middle-class families. Poor families normaly have 8.

@Evi19th 6 жыл бұрын

Who will pay for the living expenses if you don’t have children? Having children in countries like these is a necessety to survive.

@kimjongun7114 6 жыл бұрын

Muhammad commanded us to have an army of kids

@vgrepairs 6 жыл бұрын

Having children is genetically programmed to be our single most important goal. Where the fuck have you been? Do you not enjoy sex or something?

@MrUmarfarooq17 6 жыл бұрын

It is really not so much about having how many kids ...

@TracksideViews 5 жыл бұрын

He said thanks for the data and we will call you soon for virus removal.

@N64Guy 3 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine all the data left on those drives just waiting to be found

@rodger3352 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@thespiritof76.. 5 жыл бұрын

4:20 he seemed little nervous explaining import/export of product. Haha I would be too!

@agurkosarvuotis 6 жыл бұрын

Think twice when you throw away your computers with personal data in hard drives :D

@Hmongboi228 4 жыл бұрын

That's why you should reformat it, crack open the hard drive with a screw driver and burn it. Reformatting it is not enough. Even the FBI can still retrieve information from a reformatted hard drive AND bits and pieces of information from a physically burned hard drive..

@VJETRA 4 жыл бұрын

@@Hmongboi228 as if your data worth any thing at all. also if you did use internet ,deleting from your pc doesn't help much.

@thirstiestvillager9233 3 жыл бұрын

@@VJETRA You say people's data isn't worth anything, yet facebook sells your movie tastes, restaurant tastes, friend information etc. for billions. Information is valuable.

@KakkoiSan 5 жыл бұрын

They know the risks, they just do it to live, there's no other options damnit

@notime9385 5 жыл бұрын

best comment on here

@helio2942 5 жыл бұрын

what do you mean there are no fucking options? why the heck do they have to recycle e-waste.

@timbrown9305 5 жыл бұрын

You can't be that ignorant. By the way, ignorance is having the information available to you but you "ignore" it.

@modyosman5059 5 жыл бұрын

@@Shrekster5E They have options, but at that point in time they view this as the best option available. The person is still trying to make an income for his family, and can't find other jobs, because the place is gang conflict area. If he gives this up; he may be fine, but what about his parents who can't work? don't forget that there are many others in the exact same shoes as him in the area and many worse off.

@helio2942 5 жыл бұрын

@Jerry C 🤷🏼‍♂️ oh well

@mattthatch8662 4 жыл бұрын

17:32 who the hell threw out that poor Playstation, I'd recognise that stacked controller / memory card port anywhere :(

@AP-wn3qu 2 жыл бұрын

Taliban wants to know your location

@teddy4639 3 жыл бұрын

Nowadays, most of us are watching this on a device that will bring so much suffering to so many people yet only gives pleasure to single user.

@Existentialexplosion 8 жыл бұрын

Journeyman Pictures, thank you for the great job you are doing!

@habibilahlah 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing can be solved, without solving corruption.

@travelleryu 5 жыл бұрын

And destroying islam

@joerowland607 5 жыл бұрын

cant solve the problem of corruption without first tackling greed

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

@@travelleryu I think there are some groups within Islam that are NOT so evil, like in Saudi Arabia. Then again, I'm no expert. I personally think that ALL religion is damaging to girls/women. It's used to oppress women and empower men, we need to empower more women.

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

@@joerowland607 They go hand in hand.

@richardsandwell2285 5 жыл бұрын

And the world is full of bent corrupt bastards.

@freekingawwsome 3 жыл бұрын

The work that Nassir and others are doing it is an awesome job ,for I too have been recycling computer parts for years as well

@2flyingbirds293 3 жыл бұрын

2.32 goat is eating keyboard's key 😂😂

@WIZARDWERX 7 жыл бұрын

call Microsoft support

@aden1466 6 жыл бұрын

if you call, you will get someone in India...Pakistan and India don't like each other.

@stephbell9944 5 жыл бұрын

Obviously there too poor for contraception you have to remember in these countries they have a different way of life the women obey their husband's and if they don't use condoms then obviously the women and up with multiple children plus your son's look after the family when you get too old to work. Sad really. When it's easily avoidable

@highpineapple 5 жыл бұрын

@@varunreddy9578 Yeah, you're clueless.

@rpscorp9457 5 жыл бұрын

If you call support for anything in pakistan, your unqualified neighbor just may pick up.

@jacksheet1032 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah i call Microsoft support... i call it crap!!

@syedrayan8736 8 жыл бұрын

so many of the subtitles are wrong. The directors have misquoted a lot of people.

@garnetgun 6 жыл бұрын

Syed Rayan they always do...

@SocraticIAM 6 жыл бұрын

translation is a tough job, particularly conceptual frameworks, colloquialisms, and local/regional connotations.

@newnamesameperson397 5 жыл бұрын

It's leftist propaganda

@minhal_lhr 5 жыл бұрын

This documentary is not wholly objective. And the comments section here is fair evidence of the utter ignorance of the average westerner when it comes to our affairs.

@fmcgarrity1479 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck your backwards country you pos

@Ice_Karma 5 жыл бұрын

4:26 I swear that sounds exactly like ICQ's startup foghorn sound.

@mk_venture 6 жыл бұрын

@25:41 the fisherman is talking about animal waste in urdu language but its totally mistranslated, stop misguiding people for your views please

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should do a proper translations and tell us in the comment section.. Why say it's wrong but not tell us what they ARE saying?

@farwahbatool6247 5 жыл бұрын

@@jaelynn7575The fisherman was saying that the fish have became less and more less due to cow dung (poop) near the riverbank. Means the cow poops have polluted the river and now fishies don't come and visit them.

@jawadalishah2075 6 жыл бұрын

Pakistanis and Indian fighting in the comments. Shows our maturity. Patience and good vibes needed

@htoodoh5770 6 жыл бұрын

jawad ali shah LOL

@TheMANAS339 5 жыл бұрын

exactly wat I m noticing ..and bloody whites who are the Epicentre of the problems r commenting shit about us . wen I say us it's Indians Pakistanis Bangladeshis and so on..these whites managed to divide us and divide us for good. I m from India. heart goes out for these ppl in the video.

@travelleryu 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMANAS339 Yet you say nothing about the caste system, arranged marriages or the heinous Sharia Law these muslims follow. India deserved to be colonized

@shubhampreetsingh8630 5 жыл бұрын

You're right bro!! We have lot of issues to deal with, instead of sitting on youtube and becoming a keyboard warrior

@Asgharali-cw2jb 5 жыл бұрын

@@htoodoh5770 Mostly indians obsessed with Pakistan. Inferiority complex and 1200+ years of being subject to Moguls

@AZ-oy5vj 5 жыл бұрын

24:30 low key using the kid as a drum set.

@amanwaseem926 3 жыл бұрын

🤣 jokes aside. Kids in pakistan really love that massage

@ikramqamar7786 3 жыл бұрын

Same. But we use to love that!

@Kreln1221 3 жыл бұрын

*The irony is that you might watching this video on a device that will end up being processed and recycled there...*

@djfield 7 жыл бұрын

Haha the goat is chillin in front of the camera...

@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 6 жыл бұрын

Eduardo Enrique That goat is the G.O.A.T.

@mangolighters 6 жыл бұрын

bro i paused to video to check for a goat comment, he looks like an alien

@Trees100 6 жыл бұрын

all animals matter.

@Mom_sBasement 5 жыл бұрын

The goat has a better life than the people.

@fatcatfunnies6216 5 жыл бұрын

@AssasinArsenal47 omg this got me so bad X"D LMAO

@Prairiedrifter1 5 жыл бұрын

If I barely have enough food myself then why the hell would I bring 4 kids into this world?

@SpankyDomDaddy 5 жыл бұрын

Ever Studied about Slum culture of income , it's like the 40's of america when people had 8-10 kids....

@cs0345 5 жыл бұрын

Its a survival instinct to ensure reproductive success.

@lightfox11 5 жыл бұрын

Cant afford condoms

@ELEVOPR 5 жыл бұрын

2:33 My Favorite Part of this video :o)

@stevensantos8370 3 жыл бұрын

Lok

@stevensantos8370 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@keep_it_real_1 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣mine too maaaaah 🐐

@McQueenRLZ 3 жыл бұрын

5 years has passed since this video and nothing has changed.

@SemperAugustusBubble 7 жыл бұрын

As someone who has lived in America my entire life this is just heartwrenching. Even the poorest parts of Mexico I've visited can't even begin to compare to this wasteland.

@alexm566 2 жыл бұрын

this is still far better than many places in Africa.

@bigwendigo2253 Жыл бұрын

@@alexm566 it’s about as equal as the parts of Africa that burn the plastic off of the copper wires and extract metal waste. But places like the DRC or other countries who are rebelling against their corrupt government and kidnapping child soldiers or suffering extreme famine, yeah this might be better.

@hamzamalik248 6 жыл бұрын

Subtitles are misleading sometimes. and this is the slums of karachi, whole of karachi or Pakistan is not like that.

@sad0n3 3 жыл бұрын

@Madematician this is islamic business

@jonaiyahe.pandapatan3690 3 жыл бұрын

@@sad0n3 Tsk another racist

@moizahmed9881 3 жыл бұрын

@Madematician everyday wtf thats a lie

@moizahmed9881 3 жыл бұрын

@Madematician nowits alot better you must be working there like 10 years ago

@moizahmed9881 3 жыл бұрын

@Madematician i dont know actully

@monkeypolicd 3 жыл бұрын

That's why yall need to stop buying latest phones or computers.

@kripto999 3 жыл бұрын

Nah that's not the right way - we need solutions for better/healthier recycling the stuff

@SpiritEngine 5 жыл бұрын

2:30 What he actually said was "These PS2 keyboards should be kept separate" hahaha I think they're just making random chat for the cameras!

@AP-wn3qu 2 жыл бұрын

How dare you raise question against Taliban allies

@akabaker98 8 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to open a toothbrush factory there. They would make a killing.

@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 8 жыл бұрын

lmfao. Dude i thought the same thing yet was leaning towards dentists. That one guy made 500 euro 💶. He could've gotten at least one of them teeth fixed.

@bublla__7913 5 жыл бұрын

@@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 on the other hand why should he, look at his whole surrounding everythings falling apart mega junkyard.. his teeth just blend in this whole scenery

@MegaRambell 7 жыл бұрын

The goat at 2:34

@ronmoore6598 2 жыл бұрын

@10;17 Maybe use something besides an oversized torch to de-solder it?

@matangbentekwatrooras3279 4 жыл бұрын

26:36 they have similarities with panda figure!..😂

@coolspot18 6 жыл бұрын

@13:45 The mother bought a lot a medication, but it looks like 95% of it is Fluconazole which is an anti-fungal and not anti-histamine...

@OutyMan 5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that too, if she was even getting what she thought she was getting, because the way she described it, it doesn't sound like she consulted a medical professional about it, and probably bought it from some street vendor who said: "What you need are these! **opens coat to display random boxes of pills**"

@jasonjohnson4133 5 жыл бұрын

She's probably better off with the anti-fungal if her symptoms have progressed due to long-term exposure

@thewhitemustang 5 жыл бұрын

That medicine is probably what's causing the stomach aches and the pimples. I wonder if those pills are even real. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if those pills were made from ground up computer pcb boards or rock dust. I'm wondering most about how they afford that place. Do they pay rent, property taxes, do they pay income tax? The mother said she's been there for her whole life. I really hope the person behind the camera gave them a few hundred bucks for their time and also take the lady to see a doctor. When I was in India, I got a rash of little red spots on my feet and I went to my friends family doctor, he looked just like a normal Indian. He met us out side, looked at my feet, I think he gave me a few pills (probably the same pills she's taking, ha ha ha ha) and that was that. The rash went away.

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

It's possible it's for HIV treatment. Fungal infections are common in people with lowered immune systems.

@cylais3518 5 жыл бұрын

@sophronia Mason wtf is wrong with you?!

@humanskull182 5 жыл бұрын

12:53 He's talking about how toxic the metals in the environment are, and I can think of is "Holy shit, I want one of those things in my playground"

@BoxxerCore 5 жыл бұрын

When I saw that goat at 2:32 it reminded me of Richie Aprille from The Sopranos just before Janice shoots him "Whatcha lookin at ... "

@bostjanko 5 жыл бұрын

Horrable, but.. instead of complaining how external help is needed, maybe bend over and pick up garbage in front of your door. It has nothing to do with money... it`s culture. I walk 60 meters for correctly dispensing a plastic bottle. They just trow it on the floor. No money can solve this.

@JustinAbroad 6 жыл бұрын

Complains about dumping waste in pakistan. but is the biggest waste importer in Pakistan. LMAO

@dustsky 5 жыл бұрын

But it"s good to know that their nuclear program is alive and well. Priorities, I guess.

@pureblood3127 5 жыл бұрын

@@stonytina01will-not-be-ban78 I was looking for a good place to insert my comment about how every documentary I watch about some shit hole country, being a shithole , somehow always boils down to a place where Christian values are not being up held !!!!

@joeshmoe8606 5 жыл бұрын

@@pureblood3127 It's a shame those same Christian values were too busy holding up priests' shafts. Learn more about poverty you entitled fuck. These people are forced to do a job that is killing them to feed their family, and all you can focus on is how righteous you are... you are the epitome of a hypocritical. Take a step back and remember that everything you are and everything you have has been fed to you on a golden spoon, wether you want to admit it or not. My assumption is that you don't know real suffering. It's a shame that people like you exist. Live and let live. If you refuse to help your fellow human then you are worse than scum. #HumanRace

@IDIOCRACY-1984 6 жыл бұрын

As in the US, military spending including nuclear arsenals take precedence over individual human life

@bashkillszombies 5 жыл бұрын

Heavy metals sit low in water bodies, the pollution of that river is people dumping their own home garbage and shitting in it. It's not an e-waste problem.

@sayyidsahal4533 Жыл бұрын

Toxic gas affects lungs, but toxic ass affects heart. They don't have that there.

@miriamhaider6385 5 жыл бұрын

I have been to Pakistan last year for 3 months to do some charity work and the 1st problem that I seen is that yes the government have a bugget for that stuff but the small village MPs are putting it in there pockets building them self's houses have nice car and not spending the money were it should of been spend. It's very sad because Pakistan is a beautiful country with alot of potential but it's full of corruption....

@stonytina01will-not-be-ban78 5 жыл бұрын

What you describe is TSB, Typical Scumlim Behaviour.

@azimaz5483 5 жыл бұрын

Like the Mowla

@juanvillalobos9044 5 жыл бұрын

0:38 LOL, that GTA 5 cover in the background😆

@jimmythepowerful 3 жыл бұрын

Every second person in Pakistan lives of 1 dollar a day... but the country has nuclear weapons... LOL

@sirfartsalot1328 4 жыл бұрын

As a home refiner I can attest to the difficulty and danger in doing this. Its extremely hazardous even with full protective equipment. Smh, jesus, the guys who own and are operating these businesses are fully aware of the dangers, they just don't care about the health of their employees. Plain and simple.

@MrRakah 7 жыл бұрын

Vice needs to re-title this "The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Workers Who Refuse to Wear Masks"

@centralstar7168 5 жыл бұрын

MrRakah they don’t refuse to wear it. It is because it is too expensive to by masks containing the pure cotton and other materials because the money in some countries have lower values than others which makes it harder for people in third world countries to buy protection because they would rather suffer toxic gas rather than starving to death. If you watched the whole video the whole family lives of 2 Euros a day. Honestly feel bad for these peoplr

@apollocapitalgroup 5 жыл бұрын

JUST NUKEM ALL

@ElNegus9985 3 жыл бұрын

But it's not Vice...

@khalidsohailhakim8141 5 жыл бұрын

24:08 the poor girl coughing brought tears in my eyes. I mean this is same in India China Bangladesh and other asian countries. No law no awareness by government. People suffering in sheer ignorance or lack of better jobs to survive.

@newman4773 4 жыл бұрын

Dont put all asian country. Malaysia,singapore,brunei,japan has no such thing. Read reliable source

@funnyhomemadefilms4145 3 жыл бұрын

@Rakesh yes

@cylais3518 5 жыл бұрын

23:30 3 euros on medicine. That moment u realize u just wasted 25 euros on MacDonald's nuggets.

@pukelius4128 4 жыл бұрын

But you still got your diabetes and bloodpressure medicines. They didn't get their nuggets.

@cylais3518 4 жыл бұрын

@@pukelius4128 It was a satire comment.

@bilalraja6745 5 жыл бұрын

They can easily make a nuclear reactor to power up the city for years and years to come

@moizahmed9881 3 жыл бұрын

they are making it. it will be complete in 2021

@offroadspecialties7383 3 жыл бұрын

Or a pyrolysis reactor with a scrubber to clean up all the trash.

@AndroidGamePlayed 5 жыл бұрын

12:55 damn they have better swings than us!

@dennisescobar8266 3 жыл бұрын

I know it's been w years but I was about to comment something similar because those swings are cool almost like a ferris wheel roller coaster

@baronmarshland3357 7 жыл бұрын

My mum always said, just because you are poor you don't have to be dirty, pick the bloody rubbish up. They want external government help but authorities can't enter the area because of locals. If I had that much rubbish around my house I wouldn't stop until it was clean

@garyharmon1259 5 жыл бұрын

V Kurt cage

@timmydirtyrat6015 5 жыл бұрын

Are you fucking dense? Where would they put the trash? They don't have trash disposal services idiot!

@xjyrki 5 жыл бұрын

@@timmydirtyrat6015 They could incinerate the pieces of plastics and fabrics that now litter the river and end up in the sea. The plastics are mostly plastic bags that are polyethylene and bottles that are polypropylene. Both break down to just water and carbon dioxide when burned. Also it would be a great idea to not to shit and urinate where you eat and drink. These people truly are idiots.

@timmydirtyrat6015 5 жыл бұрын

+xjyrki Okay, so these poor people have to take their trash, burn it themselves and somehow have access to plumbing without access to plumbing. Seems like a double standard to expect these people to burn their own fucking garbage themselves when Americans and British won't take two seconds to sort their fucking recyclables and garbage and then throw both into landfills

@lightfox11 5 жыл бұрын

Yea if they pick up the rubbish where are they going to put it? In their little house? There obviously arent trash bins anywhere.

@hostilesinbound3241 3 жыл бұрын

I find these people incredibly resourceful, I admire them. I just wish they had a better, more environmentally friendly way of harvesting the e-waste. The concept is a great idea as is all recycling, but it is so sad that it is at the expense of their health.

@DETmichigan-yy6lf 4 жыл бұрын

And they're worried about plastic straws? Yeaaah,ok

@craigharris9591 5 жыл бұрын

LOL this is the only place in the world where you will find a goat in a computer shop.. :)

@SoZ1646 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder why these companies can't or won't be sending all these products to Detroit or any other shit city here in the U.S. It seems to be a great way to keep people busy and have a job to do.

@User-nu6km 5 жыл бұрын

population control as well

@jaelynn7575 5 жыл бұрын

Probably b/c they aren't worth anything here.

@askmagoo826 5 жыл бұрын

@@jaelynn7575 true, at best they earn 2 euros a day. How can you live by that.

@SB-KNIGHT 5 жыл бұрын

Really, you think the entitled people here want to do this type of work... or even let that stuff back in after they got rid of it. Don't forget that iS our waste...

@datsunz152 5 жыл бұрын

Loooool ever heard of osha

@gardentools2553 3 жыл бұрын

What exactly are they reselling ?

@chrismofer 5 жыл бұрын

If these dudes spent a moment to wrap a shirt around their mouth for particulates, or install a fan with a duct running outside, they'd drastically improve their health. It seems like they're totally aware of the toxic nature of their work, I wish they'd wear gloves and at least some sort of particle trap over their mouths

@solveit7649 5 жыл бұрын

he works outside when using flame gun

@chrismofer 5 жыл бұрын

@@solveit7649 sure thing, Asif Alvi

@harleygough 5 жыл бұрын

17:15 Intro to 'Sleepwalk' :D

@davidjames666 8 жыл бұрын

They should refurbish the computers and send them to India. Indians are smart, and maybe one of them can write a program to build toilets so the people do not have to shit in the street and their drinking water.

@jimdor8353 7 жыл бұрын

dont be dumb

@voyage001. 7 жыл бұрын

David James wtf why u guys are so much worried about india just mind your own business and think about your own country we Indians are enough to take care of our motherland

@prbhupal1 7 жыл бұрын

David James looks like u lost job to Indians. for regaining it you need brains not mouth. ok!. remember 2 out of 5 people will be Indians in coming days. if you don't keep ur tongue under control you end up your mouth filled with our piss, as u said we pee on streets. then your bloody voice gets no help. I suggest you to stop being racist, and realize truth that u r dumb

@voyage001. 7 жыл бұрын

David James at least we wash after shit not like u guys using paper to rub your filthy butt

@RanjitSingh-kj6cp 7 жыл бұрын

David James lol India is ur father and India invented the cubicles.

@upload5622 5 жыл бұрын

WWF, World Wrestling Federation? Like Macho Man, Rangy Savage: "Snap into a Slim Jim!"

@taketimeout2share 5 жыл бұрын

"Good business is where you find it." Robocop.

@markmyjak7739 5 жыл бұрын

They should be using the goats to chew up the plastic.

@joshwizardguy7662 5 жыл бұрын

Gotopost tt lmao

@rpscorp9457 5 жыл бұрын

@Gotopost tt oh man....dayum.....

@terrypippin3005 5 жыл бұрын

They to busy fucking the goats !!!

@hungbulldaddy 8 жыл бұрын

they get that stuff because one of their own has figured out that MONEY can be made from this junk that others have thrown away because of consumerism. It each individual's fault in this subject.

@andriodpro2410 7 жыл бұрын

well said

@Nanoscape30 Жыл бұрын

2:33 just munching with a basket full of green behind him with a computer on top of it... hes so cool 😎

@sriharshacv7760 5 жыл бұрын

I like the way these documentary makers make the subjects sit down and act in front of cameras. "Sir, can you please shake hands, you are gonna be in a picture....". "Madam, would you please ask your son to come over and have dinner, you are gonna be on TV". Lol

@oinkyaldritz4509 7 жыл бұрын

22:12 "We don't do anything, because no one helps us." Typical.

@zenniz1992 7 жыл бұрын

I've went to undeveloped countries to help out the people in rural areas. I was shocked at what i saw. They have the tools and equipment to build a better enviroment yet they prefer to wait for volunteers to do it for them.

@Taporeee 6 жыл бұрын

David Israel recieves enormous financial and military aid from the USA.

@anjayl 6 жыл бұрын

*"Look at what USA and Canada did in just 300 years!"* That's idiotic... Very rare are the developed countries that haven't developed without stealing from or exploiting poorer countries... USA is certainly not one of them.

@htoodoh5770 6 жыл бұрын

Oinky Aldritz The subtitle may not be accurate.

@htoodoh5770 6 жыл бұрын

WB IsMe They may not be educated on such thing. However, I don't know the context of your statement.

@andreiciobotaru7977 5 жыл бұрын

23:58 that poor child is sleeping on the floor

@johnd.5601 3 жыл бұрын

There's enough people there doing nothing, why don't they clean up the river? How about cleaning up around your house? I don't care how poor I am I'd clean up the trash around me.

@TropicLightning- 5 жыл бұрын

HELL ON EARTH! ALL IS LOST!!

@MsJerkinbabe 7 жыл бұрын

why do people always say that wealthy people or middle class people are greedy and corrupted? we work hard to have what we have and you expect us to give our money to them? My parents works their asses off to buy houses, cars etc while some people just take the government's money. it is their own government's fault. country like New Zealand, USA, England etc is rich and well because we got rules and regulations

@StuartOliver83 5 жыл бұрын

Saskia Sadist agreed 👍🏻

@AmjadMiandad 5 жыл бұрын

who the hell is asking you to give money to them, none. I believe this whole documentary meant to keep all the e-shit in your own asses or manage this at your own wealthy or middle class countries instead of dumping or throwing to these poor countries so they could opt to alternate ways less harmful to them.

@fellovercliff4525 5 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up you spoiled little shit!

@centralstar7168 5 жыл бұрын

Ignorance at its finest. Smh it’s the same 1st world countries who do trash to other Lic countries but then point the finger at them

@timmydirtyrat6015 5 жыл бұрын

The shit you fucking well-off people buy is made by these people! That's why America and England and New Zealand can have nice things is because they outsource their fucking products to near slave labor places like this! If every country stopped selling to America, we would be fucked. It's not American workers who are making your Gucci handbag your dad bought you, it's some child in India working 14-hour shifts so shut the fuck up you little ungrateful brat and thank these fucking hardworking people for giving you nearly everything you fucking own.

@OnlyBaluch 5 жыл бұрын

Akbar and his families are not even Pakistanis they are Bangali's

@DetroitFettyghost 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Guys 21 looks older than me I'm 40 and been shooting heroin 21 years. These jobs are death sentence. So sad. Good luck Ahkbar I wish you health brother!

@screwthenet 5 жыл бұрын

The turnabout, and by that I mean the amount ofe waste will decrease over the next few decades , but not enough to positively affect these and many others i nmany other countries suffering crom sickness and crippling poverty. Yet still if these parts are properly recycled, and people get a bit more know how, or education, they can use these parts o make devices to sell, or just improve their own ways of life. Things will change by the early 2020s and onward and onward. Nothing happens overnight, good or bad, everything takes baby steps, changing progressively toward any end. Very informative, I did not know this about pakistan. Good video.

@mutee333 5 жыл бұрын

Detailed look at the state of E-waste problem, however the environmental and health impact should have been shown more clearly, with more stats/data/research to make for a more convincing argument.

@HeavyProfessor 5 жыл бұрын

Not even on the same level as Ghana e-waste heaps

@SosaSal_ 4 жыл бұрын

HeavyProfessor does it make it any better? No

@KamaldeepSingh7 3 жыл бұрын

agbobgloshie...ghana

@N64Guy 3 жыл бұрын

Lol I haven’t seen that video in like 8 years

@yanbigtimeinc7698 3 жыл бұрын

0:32 For a second there i was like🤔 why is he hitting that donut 🍩 with the hammer 🔨

@healthmoneylove418 3 жыл бұрын

Poorest in pakistan? That’s almost everone there! Alla akhbar!

@PinkyTaDa 5 жыл бұрын

i think i saw my old pc in there

@LockheedMonster 3 жыл бұрын

What are the odds of that?

@accelwell7018 6 жыл бұрын

It's a sin the way we treat the earth

@infinitecanadian 5 жыл бұрын

Accel Well ‘We’? You shouldn’t group everyone into the same category; I only send electronics to the recycling when I know they are unusable.

@newnamesameperson397 5 жыл бұрын

Fuck the earth

@kylepasta 5 жыл бұрын

Accel Well they want that stuff, it creates an economy for them. Without it, they have dirt

@stephaniefrye1630 5 жыл бұрын

Its a sin the way we treat OTHER PEOPLE

@tyler496121 5 жыл бұрын

We? alot of countries do their best not to do this buts its countries like these that are doing it not everyone country.

@Immortal-lh3ew 4 жыл бұрын

i’ve been binge watching these types of vids, not sure if thats good or bad for me

@balargus319 2 жыл бұрын

2:35 meanwhile there is a goat that is sitting there happily.

@velascomike5800 5 жыл бұрын

wow, e-waste is money if you know to handle it.....

@pwnmeisterage 5 жыл бұрын

Costs of operating component-extraction recycling facilities make it unprofitable in countries which have laws for health, safety, and pollution. That's why it's done in third world poverty.

@micjones1116 3 жыл бұрын

@@pwnmeisterage my garage is a 3rd world country😁o my I've gone international😳

@ShubhamSharma-dx3bl 3 жыл бұрын

Great business opportunity and future business especially