Shocking pictures of the toxic 'electronic graveyards' in Africa where the West dumps its old PCs, laptops, microwaves, fridges and phones

A new report revealed 41 million tonnes of e-waste was discarded globally in 2014 and Africa has become the dumping ground for it. The Agbogbloshie landfill in Ghana (pictured) is just one where mountains of broken television sets, microwaves, computers and refrigerators from countries all over the world are dumped. Transporting broken appliances known as e-waste is illegal but brokers fraudulently label the products as reusable so they can be shipped, campaigners have said. Young men at the site brave toxic fumes - and the poisonous elements that leak from some appliances - to sift through the waste in the hopes of finding something worth selling (bottom right). Others burn components (inset) to recover scrap metal which can be sold at market.