Ivory Coast tackling its toxic mobile waste problem
Adou Felicien negotiates with a customer through the wire grille that serves as a window at the front of his mobile phone repair shop.
There is little room inside his wooden shack in the heart of Treichville, a commune in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's economic capital.
Every available floor and surface space is plastered with old pieces of mobile phones, electrical parts and wires. He is one of hundreds of mobile phone repair men dotted around the city. For a small sum they can fix almost anything.
But as phones get cheaper and new models flood the market, many people here are more interested in buying flashy new smartphones costing as little as $8 (£5) in Abidjan's "marche noir", or black market, than fixing their old phones.
So what happens to all the discarded models?
Ivory Coast tackling its toxic mobile waste problem
Adou Felicien negotiates with a customer through the wire grille that serves as a window at the front of his mobile phone repair shop.
There is little room inside his wooden shack in the heart of Treichville, a commune in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's economic capital.
Every available floor and surface space is plastered with old pieces of mobile phones, electrical parts and wires. He is one of hundreds of mobile phone repair men dotted around the city. For a small sum they can fix almost anything.
But as phones get cheaper and new models flood the market, many people here are more interested in buying flashy new smartphones costing as little as $8 (£5) in Abidjan's "marche noir", or black market, than fixing their old phones.
So what happens to all the discarded models?
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