Synopsis
Documentary in which Reggie Yates heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the world - Accra's Agbogbloshie.
- Programme: The Insider: Reggie Yates
- Series: 2
- Episode: 01: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump
- Channel: BBC Three
- Broadcast year: 2017
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