Child Labour Recycling Batteries
This is a picture of one of many young children who work recycling used batteries. The recycling process gives off carbon which the children breath, doing unknown damage to their young bodies.
Sathi is eight years old and lives in Bangladesh.
Her natural face is not this dark; the color comes from the carbon rods she and hundreds of other children extract from batteries at recycling factories.
She earns about US$3.50 a month for this work, inhaling carbon dust all the while
Does this mean we have to choose between the damage done to the environment by throwing our batteries out (into landfile) or recycling them at the risk of the health of child labour? Story and photo from Kauaian.
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