article_snippet.sent: : Young men sift through the mountains of scraps in landfills like Agbogbloshie (pictured) in Ghana's capital Accra (pictured), hoping to find something worth selling in local markets .
article_snippet.sent: The shocking images taken by e-waste campaigners QAMP reveal how countless household appliances have contaminated what was once the 'pastoral landscape' of Agbogbloshie in Accra. '
article_snippet.sent: Photographs show young boys trawling through the western world's scraps, dismantling old stereos and burning components to recover scrap metal - which they will sell for small amounts of money.
article_snippet.sent: Locals in Ghana's capital Accra intercept trucks carrying the discarded products and buy the products without testing them - to later sell them in the city's market (pictured) Target:
article_snippet.sent: Inexpensive: Even old wiring is dumped in Agbogbloshie (pictured) because it is cheaper to ship them to Africa than it is to recycle it in European Union nations .
article_snippet.sent: There is an opportunity to create jobs and extract those resources currently being discarded.'
article_snippet.sent: Desperate: Local Ghanaian's sift through mounds of old chargers in the hope that some of the still work and can be sold at market .
highlights_snippet.sent: Shocking photographs from Ghana capital Accra show thousands of discarded appliances in huge, filthy landfill sites .
  