b wrote:

that is known as e-waste dumping. Our post -consumer residue ends up
****ing over the envirnoment in the developing world. see these links:

This exists on a much, much larger scale in the industry known as
shipbreaking. When oceangoing vessels are retired, they often get sent
to a third world country, where they are taken onto the beach and
broken down into smaller pieces.

A Canadian photographer named Edward Burtynsky specializes in
photographing shipbreaking. There's a link to shipbreaking at his
website.

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Ships/Ships.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burtynsky

Look for his book "Manufactured Landscapes : The Photographs of Edward
Burtynsky."