I find this very funny that I'm doing a blog which i had sparked interest from another blog. I find it very ironic, but here it goes. Electronic waste to put simply is all the high tech stuff we may put in the trash. The problem here is that E-waste is not really that biodegradable. This means that it will stay there until someone is willing to clean it up or not even throw out in the wrong trash. The thing is that this only started about twenty to thirty years ago. It started with Japan and United States since they were the most developed nation. E-Waste continues to be created by all the high tech devices such as computers and I-Pods. Eighty percent of these devices go to landfills and only twenty percent get sent to be recycled. The recycled material are instead sent to India since it only costs $2 to perform the process there. In India, the working environment is not as safe as the U.S. tries to make theirs. This puts a threat to another country for our garbage since some of the high tech devices can be hazardous to human health. This means that we are creating danger for another country.
We as humans overall should take responsibility for the E waste. This kind of waste is dangerous and we need to recycle more and more. Let's put the electronics in the recycle and m be we can change those percents in the landfills. The more developed nations would do a lot of this work, but many nation should work on it as well.
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