E-Waste Management
                     E-Waste Management
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 
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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.
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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). 
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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.
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