Waste management

    ‘Sakawa’: Africa’s electronics dump strikes back

    Ben Asamoah’s film ‘Sakawa’ from an unexpected angle presents the Western viewer the history of the places where trash ends up after ‘death’. After computers are thrown away and sent on a long journey across the seas and oceans, the electronics safely fall into the hands of the specialists who pull personal data from hard drives. […]

    The corporate-planned death of electronics

    In 2019, Ukrainian documentary film festival ‘Docudays’ featured several films united by a single concept. If you look at those works, you will be exposed to images of countries of the ‘Second’ and ‘Third’ worlds, our global borderland, which we hardly could have envisioned ourselves.We are talking about the following films: ‘Death by design’, covering […]

    There’s much more waste production during the quarantine. Where to take masks, sanitizers and disposable tableware?

    Mask, gloves, sanitizer, “coffee with you”, work from home, travel around the city by car or bicycle, delivery from your favorite restaurant… This is what the “new normality” of city life looks like during a lockdown. However, new threats are emerging. One of them is the growth of consumption of plastic products. These things are […]