Understanding E-Waste Management and its Importance.


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Understanding E-Waste Management and its Importance.

Understanding E-Waste Management and its Importance What is e-waste? • E-waste is any electrical or electronic equipment that’s been discarded. This includes working and broken items that are thrown in the garbage or donated to a charity reseller like Goodwill. Source: www.ewaste1.com Discard Electronics Products • The ongoing challenge of how best to dispose of used and unwanted electronics isn’t a new one and dates back at least to the 1970s. But a lot has changed since then, particularly the number of electronics being discarded today. Source: www.ewaste1.com Leftover ‘New’ Technology • Today, though, a growing amount of e-waste is not considered to be products that have stopped working or become obsolete. • Technological advances are coming at us at such a dizzying speed that a lot of electronic devices that still work fine are the ones considered obsolete. Source: www.ewaste1.com E-waste Hides Toxic Materials • While above ground, modern electronics are safe to use and be around. However, most electronics contain some form of toxic materials, including beryllium, cadmium, mercury, and lead, which pose serious environmental risks to our soil, water, air, and wildlife. Source: www.ewaste1.com What happen to E-waste? • When E-waste gets buried at a landfill, it can dissolve in microscopic traces into the gross sludge that permeates at the landfill. • Eventually, these traces of toxic materials pool into the ground below the landfill. This is known as leaching. Source: www.ewaste1.com Leeching Poisons Nearby Water • The problem is that there is so, so much E-waste that the trace amounts have ballooned over the years. • That toxic water under the landfill doesn’t stop below the landfill. It continues to the groundwater and the sources to all the freshwater in the surrounding area. Source: www.ewaste1.com Mining For New Metals • Not only is this a problem for E-waste in landfills, but this is a side effect of mining for new sources of metal too. • Having an environmentally-friendly source of recycled metal is better for the environment than a company digging up new sources of ore. Source: www.ewaste1.com E-waste Problems • Unfortunately, a skyrocketing amount of e-waste is being written off by owners as junk. There’s no more significant example of that than computers, laptops, and smartphones. Source: www.ewaste1.com The Dangers of E-waste • According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health risks may result from direct contact with toxic materials that leach from e-waste. • These include minerals such as lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants, or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Source: www.ewaste1.com E-waste Disposal • Since we know consumers will keep buying new devices, it’s important to keep reinforcing that message that we need to recycle the older models, not throw them out. • The solution is to turn those devices over to an experienced firm like Great Lakes Electronics Corporation, which has years of experience performing environmentally friendly recycling of electronic products. Source: www.ewaste1.com