E- pollutants from E- waste
Title of the Issue:
E- pollutants from E- waste
Title of the Article: Electronic Pollution:The Upcoming Environmental Concern
Source: Envibrary
Author: Arjit
Samajdar
a)
Summary Narrative
Disposal of e-waste is
one of the rapid growing problem in the world. It causes environmental issue
and public health issue as well. People nowadays prefer newer one rather the
old one because they want to follow the trends today especially in technology
that became a necessity of people aside from their basic needs. Some may think
it is cheaper to buy a new cellular phone, printer, computer, etc. rather than
spending high cost of repairing ad replacing the damages. The distribution
of price pushes people to buy new products and with this, it implies more and
more disposal of the old ones. Disposal of e- waste or discarded electronic
devices causes electronic pollution. Electronic scrap components, contain
harmful components such as lead, cadmium, beryllium, or brominated flame retardants. There is
also risk in recycling and disposing of e- waste to the health of workers and communities which became landfills of electronic
scrap. When computers are burned and put in landfills it creates dioxin that
became cancer which we may get through the air we breathe and when the
electronics melted down, the chemicals may join into the soil or groundwater
and became part of the plant we eat.
b)
Lesson Learned
Technological
advancement has a positive and negative effects to human existence. It may help
people to become their work much easier and faster especially in everyday
living yet electronic waste can harm the environment through burning and
increase the risk in human health through the air we breathe and the water/
food we eat.
c)
Suggestions
Electronic waste can lessen through in preventive measures to the
consequences of the environment and in health. Handling of e-waste is dangerous
because of hazardous chemicals and toxins present in the devices and the way to
prevent it is through the manufacturers who have the will to design clean
components of devices that are free from chemicals and that have also longer
life spans and environmental scientists and technologists should develop
electronic, environmental and health friendly that will become an effective
treatment for electronic waste.
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