As the morning rain stops in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, and the sun heats the humid air, a terrible-smelling black smoke begins to rise above the vast Agbogbloshie Market. Past the vegetable and tire merchants is a scrap market filled with piles of old and broken electronics waste. This waste, consisting of broken TVs, computers, and smashed monitors, is known as "e-waste." Further beyond the scrap market are many small fires, fueled by old automobile tires, which are burning away the plastic covering from valuable wire in the e-waste People walk through the smoke-a highly poisonous mixture of chemicals with their arms full of brightly colored computer wire Many of them are children