CNN Guest Essay on Child Labor
From a distance, it looked like a mountain rising through the brown haze of northern India — until I was told it was a landfill.
As we drove closer, it became obvious that what I mistook for solid rock was trash, compacted, sunbaked, and piled dozens of stories high. Near the summit, I could just make out human figures moving slowly across the surface. They were waste pickers, collecting scrap to sell. Without protective gear, they blended into the toxic landscape.
Our Founder, Lisa Kristine, wrote about her journey with HPE into the supply chain of technology — and the child labor she found in the landfills. Read the whole article here.
