By Adam Vaughan of guardian.co.uk

As the Independent splashed on its front page morning, Greenpeace has shed new light on UK electronic waste - such as old TVs and computers - being illegally dumped in Nigeria.

We know that Lagos in Nigeria and Accra in Ghana are both infamous dumping grounds for toxic European electronic waste disguised as secondhand goods. Thanks to the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper we know that roughly three-quarters of computers sent from the US to Nigeria for reuse are beyond repair and end up being dumped. And we know that electronic waste in the UK is growing three times faster than other types of waste.

Here’s what Greenpeace did:

“Acting on a tip-off, we launched our operation to see just where some electronic waste was ending up. We took an unfixable TV, fitted it with a tracking device and brought it to the UK’s Hampshire county council for recycling. Instead of being safely dismantled in the UK or Europe, like it should have been, the council’s ‘recycling’ company, BJ Electronics, passed it on as ’secondhand goods’ and it was shipped off to Nigeria to be sold or scrapped and dumped.”