The dirty secret of your NHS.dailymail.ik.July 21,  2008. Under the pretence of recycling, NHS computers have been dumped in Ghana, where their hard drives are mined of your confidential data by criminal gangs… while children die melting down the highly toxic empty shells. Special Live investigation by Jonathan Green. [ See ]. Image: Burning off the plastic insulation from computer wiring to get the copper at a dump in Accra, Ghana.