Underneath Britain

We perceive Britain as a centre of civilisation. High ranked universities, perfect health plan, distinguished accent, gentlemen, £ , social welfare, pretty high standard of living, signatory of the Kyoto Protocol etc., etc.
This is not the reality.
I will try to exemplify a few true aspects of the real Britain in a series of posts.

THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES.

Britain produces 940,000 tonnes of domestic electronic waste annualy. Some components of this waste are toxic because of the burning metals and dioxins content. They discard this waste into dumps. The waste is loaded from the dumps and shipped to Africa. And they make money from trading the waste to poor african countries where it is harvested by young men and children trawling through toxic dumps. About 10,000 tonnes of defunct televisions and 23,000 tonnes of computers are being traded abroad in an industry worth tens of millions of pounds.