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Workers recycling India's e-waste underpaid, unprotected

Jyoti Thakur | Hanan Zaffar both in New Delhi
December 6, 2023

Seelampur is the largest electronic waste dismantling market in India. The industry is largely unregulated and laborers work in poor conditions.

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