Scrapyard
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There's a
scrapyard
here where people take apart all kinds of things, from mobile phones to computers, automobiles to even entire airplanes.
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Agbogbloshie's
scrapyard
is famous because it has become a symbol of the downside of technology: the problem of planned obsolescence.
We took forays into the
scrapyard
to look for what could be repurposed, like DVD writers that could become laser etchers, or the power supplies of old servers for a start-up in Kumasi making 3D printers out of e-waste.
We made a rule that everything had to be made from scratch using only materials made in Ghana or sourced from the
scrapyard.
If, in the future, someone tells you Agbogbloshie is the largest e-waste dump in the world, I hope you can correct them and explain to them that a dump is a place where you throw things away and leave them forever; a
scrapyard
is where you take things apart.
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