A repairer fixes the motherboard of a cellphone. Note the lack of safety equipment, such as gloves or a mask.

E-waste collecting is often work for the marginalized and impoverished. Here, a man collects desktop mice.

A man removes electronic transistors and other e-waste from computer motherboards. The shops are often open to the outdoors.

A boy working inside an e-waste recycling shop. Child labor is very prevalent in this industry, Aich says.

Passers-by are regularly exposed to e-waste contamination.

Women work in the recycling facilities, but generally not the repair shops.

The shredding process emits small and often-harmful particulates that can be inhaled by workers.

In many cases, e-waste workers have exposed cuts that can allow contaminants to directly enter their blood streams.