The garbage dumps in Ghana, where computers are burned and ripped apart for their rich minerals. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary
Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989 and now adopted
by a majority of nations, was meant to stop the dumping of toxic waste in poor
countries. But rules get complicated when the waste arrives as a gift.
Credit: Pieter Hugo for The New York Times
