Electronic Stewardship

It has become the new “norm” with people to replace their electronics because their devices become out of date or they feel like they have to have the latest thing. In the article “Our E-Waste Problem Is Ridiculous, And Gadget Makers Aren’t Helping,” by Christina Bonnington, the author discusses how people buy new electronics every year when they come out and the old ones get abandoned. She also talks about how many people aren’t properly recycling their old devices and how some electronics can be impossible to recycle the right way. She also talks

As used electronics is becoming a waster hazard worldwide local governments such as where I live include programs at local waste stations purely for electronics. This encourages local residents to freely drop off their electronic waste, like TV’s and computers and mobile phones to these locations where the waste is sorted and than shipped to facilities that can process this waste appropriately which also includes recycling as much material as possible. This has a

E-waste or electronic waste is the number 1 fastest growing trash in the united states since 2004. E-waste is made up of lead, mercury, , and caldium. All of these Acids are deadly to the human body. Alex lin and many other teen activists work with these acids every day. Also, These activists are trying to stop these deadly acid from seeking into the ground and killing natural resources. These acids can also get into the water systems and harm people. When you get a new electronic you would most likely through it out in the TRASH, but you should recycle old electronics. According to the Electronic recycling 101 article, 3 million tons of electronic are trough out and only 13.6 of them are recycled. This shows that many people are unaware of

In Christina Bonington’s article “Our E-Waste Problem is Ridiculous and Gadget Makers Aren’t Working”, the problem is that electric waste has grown rapidly thought out the years. These causing environmental hazards. The writer first supporting detail, The hazardous waste being dumped into the landfill. These old devices are discarded into the wrong places; causing many environmental hazards. are companies made more devices lighter and more efficient.

Certainly, the complex the organization the complex the computer disposal policy; nevertheless, it would be interesting to know how e-waste responsible is this organization. The EPA endorses two recycling programs, the e-Stewards and the R2 that require independent audits to ensure the disposal protocol. I am certain they would follow one of them, right?

Electronics Recycling. Electronic recycling is one consideration the company can do better with. Recycling in general lowers greenhouse gas emissions that are caused by manufacturing items for the first time. Recycling electronics conserves natural resources making cleaner air and water. The valuable resources computers and electronic components carry are metals, plastics, and glass. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), recycling a million laptops would give back enough energy for 3500 American homes’ electricity. A million cell phones would could yield 35,000 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold, and 33 pounds of palladium. Instead of throwing out the old computers and blackberry’s, the company could simply upgrade the hardware or software and then recycle the parts necessary.

Experiment 4 required multiple electrical components, diodes, resistors, a capacitor, and more, purchased for the quarter long class and that are most likely disposed at the end of the quarter. Despite their longer life cycles, the diodes used in this lab were only used twice this quarter. According to the Commoner’s law of ecology, “everything must go somewhere,” and these components, at the end of their life cycles or at the end of the quarter, parts of these components will go to the landfill; diodes are often disposed in landfills, but metal parts of resistors are recycled by metal recycling facilities [8]. According to the SLO county independent study, in comparison to recycling, landfilling causes more environmental burdens, such as larger ecological toxicity

Disposal refers to the reselling, reassignment, recycling, donating or throwing out of IT equipment through responsible, ethical and environmentally sound means.

There is no uniform definition of the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). With reference from European Commission defines, the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) which had reached its end of life, covers all components, subassemblies and consumables which are part of the product at the time of discarding. The other definition of Electronic waste or E-waste is “a term used to cover items of all types of EEE and its part that have been discarded by the owner as waster without intention of

The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery for all types of electronic material. The directive has gone through multiple revisions since its creation in 2002 updated in 2006 and 2009.

Existing landfills are running out of space or already full. Brock Township has already will run out of space as of 2013. Landfills in several other municipalities in southern Ontario, particularly around the GTA will fill up by 2021. A big reason for this is that we throw many recyclable materials away. Locally, over seventy five percent of plastics that could be recycled end up in landfills. Ontario is currently behind several provinces in waste diversion. A 2010 report by Ontario’s Auditor General ranked the province sixth in Canada by waste-diversion rate. Industry in Ontario operates the Ontario Electronic Stewardship, a non-profit organization that operates as a regulated recycling program. It manages old, used or end of life electronics and attempts to do so in an environmentally safe and secure way, reclaiming many of the materials for use in other

The people around the world have been a realization that waste management systems are important to put in place in industrializes countries to reduce releases of cadmium into the environment.

Most people don’t realize that piles of trash aren’t the thing wrong with landfills. There are many other issues with it too. Toxins, leachate and greenhouse gases are three components from landfills that can harm the environment. Many of the materials that end up in landfills contain toxic substances. Over the years, these toxins seep into the soil and groundwater, becoming environmental hazards for years. Electronic waste such as televisions and computers contain a lot of hazardous substances that include mercury, acids and lead.

1. Producers are responsible for the costs of picking up Electronic waste from collection facilities and for refurbishing waste products for reuse or for recycling and recovery.

The first primary cause of the E-waste is the accelerated development of science and technology. “Acceleration can be measured in the returns of the technology such as speed, efficiency, price-performance, and overall power-which improve exponentially too” (“Technology”). The last 20 years have notably changed in many aspects because of the technological innovation, and modern society is filled with various electronic products such as computers, televisions, cell