Technological Trash and What You Can Do

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Technological TrashandWhat You Can Do

• By Chandler Allen

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What It Does to Our Planet

• Throwing computers, batteries, etc away destroys
  the environment a lot more than cans or plastic.
  This is because of the chemicals and hazardous
  components inside them. When new things hit the
  market, people dispose of the old and get the
  new. This creates waste but if we recycle, then
  companies can reuse these instead of making more
  than needed. This in return keeps less hazardous
  materials from being in landfills.

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A Greener Apple

• Apple has been criticized because of the
  chemicals in its products. Apples response to
  this was that it would reduce chemicals in new
  products and try and follow the example of London
  and other places. Some chemicals they are trying
  to use less of are lead, cadium, hexavalent,
  chronium, decabromodiphenyl, ether, arsenic,
  mercury, polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame,
  and retardants.

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Recycle Game Consoles??

• If you go to GameStop, EB Games, or Circuit City,
  you can trade in your old working game consoles.
  You wont get exactly what you paid for it
  youll most like get half of the standing price
  or a bit more. This is a great way to help the
  environment because it prevents all those
  chemicals from going into the ground. If your
  gaming console is broken then you can still get
  it recycled, but you cant get money for it.

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Mobile Phones and The Environment

• Cell phones may seem small, but they have
  seriously harmful chemicals. Some of these are
  mercury, lead, nickel, and cadium. About 312,000
  lbs gets thrown away a year.

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Staples Accepts E-Waste

• Staples is working with Amadi to recycle e-waste.
  Staples is making sure they abide by all laws and
  regulations set by the EPA (Environmental
  Protection Agency). Staples charges 10 per large
  item smaller items such as keyboards are free.
  Its not always easy being green. However,
  through the leadership of Staples, Americans will
  see that preventing pollution by recycling
  unwanted electronics is as easy as it gets, said
  Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator of the U.S.
  EPA.
• Amadi is an e-waste recycling company.

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Televisions

• The FCC is eventually going to make it where we
  all run our TVs off a digital signal. That means
  all the TVs before LCD, like CRT, will be put in
  landfills. CRTs have about 8 lbs. of lead in them
  each. This is critical because there are so many
  CRTs and lead is so dangerous.

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Waste Less

• Did you know that if you have your cell phone
  charger plugged in without the cell phone adapted
  to it, you still use power? So, next time unplug
  the charger, not just your cell phone.

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Less Paper Wasted

• Why do you print your photos on paper from your
  printer? Why not share them through email, jump
  drives, or camera cards?

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Old E-Junk

• If you have and old printer or a old PDA dont
  throw it away, take it to a e-waste center. If
  you do this youre saving the earth by not
  poisoning the earth or the water.

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BatteRycycle

• All your cameras, RCs, etc, use a lot of
  batteries. Almost all your small electronics run
  on batteries. That creates a lot of used dead
  batteries, which creates a lot of e-waste. Finish
  the life cycle of the battery and recycle it so
  it can live again.

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In With the New, Out With the Old?

• When your T.V. breaks, you normally throw it away
  and get that new LCD you wanted. Why not recycle
  that T.V. and help keep the earth a better place
  to live?

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CO2Saver

• CO2Saver is a downloadable program which stops
  CO2 being used when your computer is idle. This
  saves several thousands of pounds of CO2
  emissions from going into the air.

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E-waste Art?

• Allison Schutt takes discarded computer boards
  and makes lamps and chandeliers.
• Susannah Dwyer use the keyboards and other things
  to make jewelry.

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Wet Ballasts

• Wet ballasts contain PCBs, which is a bunch of
  individual chemicals mixed. This is so very
  potent to the earth that the USA banned them in
  the 1970s. The reason this is mentioned is
  because some are still out there, because the
  fluorescent light bulbs last 10-30 yrs. So if you
  find one, report it to the state.

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Green Fed

• Green Fed , created by Arkansas Department of
  Environmental Quality, is a program where
  students can send e-waste free of charge. Green
  Fed has already recycled 1000 tons of e-waste.
  So if your school has a bunch of e-waste, tell
  them to send it Green Fed .

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Dont Throw it Away

• The next time your batteries die or T.V. quits,
  dont throw them away. Recycle them in their
  proper recycling areas instead.

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Thanks 4 Viewing My Slide

• Remember, recycle e-waste and keep the chemicals
  out of the soil and our water.

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Resources

• Apple.com
• Earth911.org