Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body burning on funeral pyre at Hindu cremation at Manikarnika crematorium Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Mourners with bodies for Hindu cremation at Harishchandra Ghat crematorium in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Mourners with body for Hindu cremation at Harishchandra Ghat electric crematorium in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body burning on funeral pyre at Hindu cremation at Manikarnika crematorium Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Muslims pray to the east during a funeral in the desert, Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta, Africa

Dead hedgehog on country road, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Snow covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish churchyard, London, United Kingdom

Drought in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). A white Land Rover 4-wheel drive vehicle drives past a dried out carcass.

Drought scene - two men walking past the dried out carcasses of dead cattle in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

One living and one dead Blue-footed Booby bird on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Locals on bicycles ride past carcasses of the bones of dead animals in the drought areas of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

A wrecked World War II airplane abandoned in the Solomon Islands

Ccarcasses of the bones of dead animals in the drought areas of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

A hungry black mongrel dog scavenging among a pile of old bones at Nalu, Rajasthan, India.

Gravestone aged with lichens in the churchyard graveyard at Landewednack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Car drives past dead deer on country road, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Sunflower field, Gascony, France

Snow covered monument and gravestones in Hampstead Parish churchyard, London, United Kingdom

Funeral procession, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

Gravestones in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Gravestones in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Gravestone in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Ancient tomb in St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Broadwell, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Slate tombstones in Landewednack Churchyard, Cornwall

Veteran in military cap looking at war graves in Commonwealth war cemetery, Normandy, France.

Cainsbay church and graveyard in Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom

American War Cemetry, Manila, Philippines

Gravestone at St Oswalds Church, Widford, in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Palliative Care Unit

Palliative Care Unit

Palliative Care Unit

Association Musique Et Sante

ESC, Escape Key, Keyboard, PC

Electric barbed wire at the railings in the concentration camp in Dachau

Electric barbed wire at the railings in the concentration camp in Dachau

Iron gate at the main entrace with the inscription work frees you in the concentration camp in Dachau

Main entrace with the inscription work frees you in the concentration camp in Dachau

Burning of computer wire and parts to recover copper and other metals in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana. Poor workers often from the northern poorer region of Ghana do the work and sell the copper to buyers who send the copper to China or India.

A village named Muftaffabad Loni on the outskirts of New Delhi, India that specializes in recycling circuit boards from electronics. The boards are taken out of electronics in other areas of New Delhi. Some of the boards are burned, some are dipped in sulfuric acid to get the metals separated from the plastics.

At the Alaba Market in Lagos Nigeria many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.

The Computer village at Ikeja neighborhood, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from USA or Europe for reuse.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria.

At a scrap metal market in New Delhi, India old rotary phone are disassembled for the metals.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria.

At CRT Recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts, German Pantoja stands with TVs that he selected and are put in a sea container for shipment to Venezuela, where they will be repaired and sold as used TVs.

The Mueller-Guttenbrunn Metal Recycling facility in Amstetten, Austria. This is where electronics goods as well as cars and other appliances are sent for recycling under the European Waste Electrics Electronics Equipment (WEEE) Initiative. All electronics goods must be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

Electronics recycling facility Metran in Kematen, Austria is where metals and plastics are sorted after the waste is first shredded at Mueller-Guttenbrunn in Amstetten. At a shake table the waste is separated by friction as hard items drop through first because they have less friction. The drum turns and small objects drop through the holes. Large piles of e-waste plastics objects and circuit boards. Avci Bilal walks atop a pile of e-waste that is waiting to be processed at Metran.

Home electronics collection day in Stamford, Connecticut is sponsored by Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA). Local residents can bring in old electronics for free collection. The equipment is sent to Amandi who pays about 20 cents a pound to recycle the electronics.

At ElectroniCycle, a recycling company in Gardner, Massachusetts CRT monitors are being broken to be recycled for glass-to-glass recycling.

The Computer village at Ikeja neighborhood, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from USA or Europe for reuse.

At CRT Recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts, workers look over electronics collected locally to determine what is valuable to recycle in house and what is sent overseas.

Taicang Port Imported Recyclable Resources Processing Zone, near Shanghai, China. This is a development project of the government to encourage business in recycling of metals and plastics, some of which comes from electronics.

Electronics recycler Global Investment Recovery facility in Salley, South Carolina. The building was formally the Salley Manufacturing Plant, an apparel company that closed and moved operations to Honduras leaving about 100 people out of work. Global Investment Recovery refurbished the building and stated a state-of-the-art electronics recycling operation. They process all of the South Carolina government e-scrap for 21 cents a pound. Scott Dillon cleaning processors, most of which will be sold for reuse. On the right side is hard drives that are wiped 7 times and will be resold. Terry Davis shrink wraps monitors, most of which will be sent overseas for reuse.

At the Taizhou Tongtian Electrical Appliance Co. Ltd., Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China workers are sorting out scrap metals.

A computer training institute in Lagos, Nigeria. The Pentium 2 computers were bought second hand in Nigeria and there are about 16 computers at this location. Students are learning various software programs including typing, Microsoft word and a drawing program. One student in the striped shirt is Alice Itodo.

Yinka Ogunsuyi teaches a computer class to 9-11 year olds from the Regency School in Lagos, Nigeria. He gets the computers from a contact in the USA and also buys some in Nigeria. The computer is a Pentium 3 Dell from the USA. Also at the school 2-3 year olds watch the movie "Happy Feat" on a Pentium 4 computer.

Taizhou Tongtian Electrical Appliance Co. Ltd., Fengjiang Disassembling Industrial Park, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. Workers are sorting out scraps.

Workers repairing electronics at a shop in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.

Seven workers are disassembling computers at TES-AMM Shanghai, which was founded on September 21, 2005, currently has 67 employees of which 26 are workers. With an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons, it has only treated 2,000 tons of e-waste from its founding more than a year ago. 'The biggest problem is that there isn't an e-waste recycling channel in China. The biggest chunks of raw materials we get are from government bodies, which are upgrading their equipments, and electronic appliances franchises that are washing out their outdated inventories. We don't have any imported e-waste because that's banned by the government. It takes a worker no more than ten minutes to disassemble a computer, and each worker can deal with between 60 to 70 computers a day,' says Janice Wu, who's the Environment & Quality Management Dept. Manager and Plant Manager Assistant.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.

Workers unload televisions at the Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the electronics here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.

Workers repairing electronics at a shop in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana.

Circuit boards for recycling in Taizhou Taigang Metal Co. Ltd., Fengjiang Disassembling Industrial Park, Luqiao District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.

Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.

Yinka Ogunsuyi teaches a computer class to 9-11 year olds from the Regency School in Lagos, Nigeria. He gets the computers from a contact in the USA and also buys some in Nigeria. The computer is a Pentium 3 Dell from the USA. Also at the school 2-3 year olds watch the movie "Happy Feat" on a Pentium 4 computer.

At CRT Recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts a worker recycles old refrigerators for electronic components and copper.

An old carousel, painted with life scenes of San Francisco in an end-of-day light, Pier 39, San Francisco, California, USA

Workers at ElectroniCycle, a recycling company in Gardner, Massachusetts take apart old televisions for recycling.

Workers load computers dropped off for recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts.

A Young Woman Sits At The End Of The Dock With Kayaks Watching The Sun Set Over A Lake, Ontario, Canada

Silhouette Of A Couple Standing At The End Of A Dock At Sunset With An Orange Glow In The Sky And Reflected In The Tranquil Lake Water, Ontario, Canada