Recycling is an earth saving, indeed essential, element of our world today. Voluntary recycling conserves resources and raises our wealth and knowledge. Recycling makes complete sense as it is worthwhile to you personally.
By making the choice to recycle now you are showing you are being pro-active towards saving our earth. Recycling is an important part of our effort to build a cleaner, greener environment.
1. The most important reason for recycling electronics is to save our environment. Our electronics equipment contains some of the most toxic chemicals such as lead and mercury in large amounts. Though it is getting better now, for a long time most of our e-waste ended up in our landfills.
Society’s technological advancements have grown significantly over the years. Electronics devices such as telephones, cell phones, radios, CD and DVD players, televisions, and computers are products that are used in every household. These items are just a few of the many electronic devices that can cause serious environmental damage due to their toxic components. Electronics that are in need of disposal are referred to as e-waste, or electronic waste.
Electronic-waste (or e-waste) is a collective name for trashed electronic items like obsolete PCs, laptops, fax machines, cell phones, batteries, consumer electronics etc. As we are about to see, it is fearfully difficult to dispose off e-waste safely since it is loaded with several highly toxic (poisonous) and harmful substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium (chromium VI), polybrominated flame retardants etc. that are not found in other forms of human waste.
Abraham Raju Chacko (or simply ‘Raju’) is a senior, independent Info.Tech(IT) consultant based in Chennai, India. Raju is 50 years old. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering (1981) from the Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India (an affiliate of the Indian Institutes of Technology, India, soon to be re-christened as IIT-BHU). In a professional career spanning over 25 years, he has worked in several IT roles ranging from Analyst/Programmer to Account Mgr/Consultant …
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