This is a total scam, scamming both the conscientious citizen who segregate their trashes and scamming the people of Ghana with this waste! It's scary to think that people can mine data but whoever organized this gave the mafia this opportunity.

I personally don't believe in most waste segregation anymore. I still do it but if you do it in a richer country, it will most likely just be sent off to a 3rd world. We have something a bit similar when Canada (and other countries) send their trashes to Philippines shores. They left us with used trash like diapers and was tagged as recyclable materials. Even those that are actually recyclable are unacceptable, we have too much waste to manage already so there should be no room for waste imports. So I find this story inhumane especially to the people of Ghana. To whoever ships those waste, I don't think they look at people from 3rd world country as humans. Just think of the unhealthy effect of this to the environment and its people.

Anyway, sorry for my rant. I'm glad that you are both safe aftet this experience. Truly brave for you to get first hand information for the world to see.