1. The Smuggling of the Second Hand. Technology Trash Vertedero from Europe in Ivory Coast, 2017. Côte d'Ivoire is determined to introduce a tax that scrupulously respects the polluter pays principle and the principle of extended producer liability. According to the Ivorian authorities, the revenue from this initiative will enable the West African country to finance the recovery and recycling of used electronic waste and tyres.
It breaks the myth of European ecological purity by revealing cross-border regulatory hypocrisy.
2. The "Ecomito" Fuga. Energy, geopolitical and digital sovereignty of the EU.
It describes the gap between the European Union's institutional green rhetoric and the operational reality of cross-border black markets that mockery environmental border controls.
3. The Rare Land Inverse Quarter. Europe is moving forward in the e- wash. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, about 50 million tons of electronic waste are generated annually. And most do not go through the optimal recycling system for the environment, which can affect human health.
It illustrates the geopolitical vulnerability and digital sovereignty of the EU. It exemplifies how the illegal export of e-waste is at the same time a waste of critical minerals (rare lands) that increases European dependence on volatile external markets.
4. Grey Cemeteries under the Green Heavens. Tank Cemetery abandoned in Ukraine, 2022. It confronts the aesthetics of the energy transition of the European landscape with the material contradictions of its internal management of high-tech waste.
5. The future of waste. 3. Curiosity broken down in marte. 2018. It illustrates the need to break borders of key resources outside our planet.
