Greenpeace follows the fate of a discarded television that had been broken beyond repair to the Alaba electronics market in Lagos, Nigeria.
[BTW, Alaba is the market so beloved by Rem Koolhaas]
Via: Huffington Post.
How Britain’s toxic waste gets dumped in an electronics market in Lagos
February 18, 2009 by Sean Jacobs
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There is a nice DVD,Lagos Wide and Close,that features some interesting scenes from the Alaba Electronics Market,having it’s own system of law and order,with court cases and even its own small prison.