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I came to know the Light Bulb Conspiracy in reading A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button. I was already familiar with the things reported in the documentary (e.g. a cartel in the 1920's to shorten lightbulb life expectancy, Bernard London in New York who advocate to make planned obsolescence mandatory to end the Great Depression, Apple having been sued etc.). The sequences of the massive amount of electronic waste in Ghana was devastating. It was reported that, while shipping e-waste to the Third World countries is forbidden by international law, developed countries continue to manage to dump them there as the wastes are declared as second-hand items. It was poignant to see school kids going to the garbage mountain, burning the plastic coverage of the electronic items to get metals inside for their living, and inhaling the toxic gas from the fire while hanging around.
Dannoritzer, C., Michelson, S. (Directors) & Úbeda, J. (Producer). (2010). The Light Bulb Conspiracy [Motion picture]. Television Española.