DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

- Billions of people are using lots of electronic devices therefore it is natural that a lot of e-waste arises.
- Americans throw away an estimated 55 billions dollars in e-waste materials annually.
- The WHO is warning that the amount of e-waste around the world is growing significantly but what is e-waste.
- Electronic waste referred to as e-waste includes all discarded electric or electronic devices the danger produced from e-waste may come from direct contact with harmful materials and heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium from inhalation of toxic fumes and leaching of toxic materials.
- Their accumulation in soil, water and food according to the Institute of Physics the huge amount of lead in e-waste if released into the environment could cause severe damage to human blood and kidneys as well as central and peripheral nervous systems.
- Even some current recycling activities can pose a risk of injury today there has been recycling of some valuable elements contained in e-waste such as copper and gold however these often extracted using fairly primitive methods.
- Such as Burning cables to remove plastic and extract the copper these methods expose workers who are often children to toxic fumes.
- We can sell or donate all old electronics, we can maintain electronics properly so they last longer, we can recycle or depose them properly.
- We should buy energy star rated products.
- By recycling 1 million mobile phones 35000 pounds of copper, 33 pounds of palladium, 772 pounds of sliver and 75 pounds of gold can be recovered.