How The Phone You Chucked is Killing Seelampur

At FactorDaily, we started tracking India’s e-waste conundrum in early 2016 with the story titled This is Seelampur: India’s digital underbelly where your phones go to die. Since then, India has risen from being the fifth highest generator of e-waste globally in 2016, to the third highest in 2019, behind China and the U.S.

CREDITS

STORY Anand Murali, Pankaj Mishra

ILLUSTRATION Tankrcreative

DIRECTION & DESIGN Vasu Agarwal

DEVELOPMENT Avdhesh Bhadoriya

How The Phone You Chucked is Killing Seelampur

11 January 2021
by Anand Murali and Pankaj Mishra
Discover how you contribute to India’s ever-growing pollution and health problems