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In 2012 the planet generated about 49 million tonnes of e-waste and by 2017 this is expected to rise to 65 million tonnes per year.

New EU laws which came into force on 14 February 2014 now force countries to recycle at least 45% of their e-waste and make it more difficult to export it illegally to the developing world.

But currently a significant amount of e-waste ends up in South East Asia and West Africa to be picked apart by workers, often children, in sometimes dangerous conditions.

大象传媒 Click's David Reid visits Agbogbloshie, Ghana to find out more.