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The Insider: Reggie Yates

Series 2

Episode 1: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Yorks & Lincs

Available for 3 months

Documentary in which Reggie Yates heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the world - Accra's Agbogbloshie. Working with a group of 'burner boys', the people grafting at what is considered to be the bottom of the ladder, Reggie discovers first-hand what life is like for the people who eke out a living on the site. Dumping electronic waste is illegal, and the chemicals in the soil in Agbogbloshie mean it has been described as 'the most toxic place on earth'. Show less

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