Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

I'm Gideon Long and today I'm looking at the problem of electrical and electronic waste.

We all produce it, old mobile phones, computers, fridges and the like.

Tons of it gets exported each year, mostly from wealthier to poorer nations,

where recycling is cheaper and waste can be dumped more easily. gets exported each year, mostly from wealthier to poorer nations,

where recycling is cheaper and waste can be dumped more easily.

One such country is Thailand, which has seen a big influx of e-waste.

Businesses have expanded into what becomes a sort of a garbage site,

an international garbage processing facility in Thailand, which is not what we want at all.

It's an environmental hazard in a country famous for its beautiful beaches and its tourist industry.

Thailand has really borne the brunt of so much of what's gone on.

This is a net negative if you import this dirty material for recycling.

You are going to contaminate your soil, your people.

And although imports of e-waste are clearly part of the problem,

ties are compounding things too by often failing to recycle their own old electronic gadgets.

I used to sell it, but for the past couple devices, I just live it at home.

So today on Business Daily, I'm in Thailand looking at what the country's doing to stem

its growing tide of electronic waste.

I'm in the province of Chombori in the east of Thailand.

It's about a 90-minute drive from Bangkok, and I'm here with officials from Thailand's Ministry of Industry.

They're planning to visit an industrial plant, a factory here which they suspect is illegally processing electronic waste,

and they've agreed to take me along with them.

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