kojo abdul karim is one of approximately 5000 workers who collect scrap an electronics televisions fridges and vacuum cleaners all these discarded and they contain valuable components. abdelkarim has learned to drive a hard bargain at across vast electronic waste dump known as ag he resells the scrap for a profit it's the only way he can on a living. i'm fine with you for probably you under we are good and sometimes you know reach. you get or you know get. i'm lucky i always see. always yeah and you know if i just want to often i was i don't think. at the scrapyard metalworkers dismantle everything manually and find a new use for all the components copy parts for example can be taken to a workshop melted down and transformed into a bracelet. out of many i'm. covered from old fridges also gets melted down he says i'm bearable and the smoke stings the work his eyes and fills their lungs. their results are now the 1000000 balls he used to make cooking pots and all shapes and sizes. the toxic side effects of all this recycling are impossible to overlook the ground is visibly polluted. life sto