HOW DOES RECYCLING ELECTRONICS HELP THE ENVIRONMENT?

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HOW DOES RECYCLING ELECTRONICS HELP THE
ENVIRONMENT?
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What is E-Waste?
Electronic waste, also known as e-waste,
comprised 1.87 million short tons of consumer
matter in 2013. This amount accounts for 40 of
total recycled consumer electronics. A short ton,
also known as the US ton, is equal to 2000 pounds
of material. If an average male African elephant
weighs seven tons, 1.87 million tons is the
equivalent of approximately 267,000 elephants.
And that figure represents one year of
consumption! E-waste includes television sets,
microwaves computers, printers, scanners, fax
machines, mice, keyboards, cell phones, office,
industrial and medical equipment, label makers,
satellite dishes, toasters, VCRS, DVD players,
heaters, washing machines and satellite dishes.
Basically, e-waste includes consumer or business
items that are no longer functioning or nearly
dead.
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• Some of the aforementioned products can be reused
  by donation or reselling through local or online
  sources. Other equipment needs to be refurbished.
  If the product is defunct, the materials can be
  recycled to help protect and sustain the
  environment.
• Before donating or recycling, delete all personal
  information from the memory of the device using
  drive cleaning software deleting files via the
  desktop is not enough to permanently delete
  sensitive information from memory. In addition,
  batteries need to be removed and recycled
  separately. When donating a cell phone, delete
  all memory, remove the SIM card and cut it in
  half.

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How Does Recycling Electronics Help the
Environment through Detoxification?
Multiple components of electronic products
contain toxic and hazardous material that are
detrimental to the health and natural environment
of plants, animals and humans. Heavy metals such
as mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead and nickel are
extremely damaging to organisms and the
environment. The absorption of the aforementioned
heavy metals, even in minute quantities, blocks
crucial enzymatic pathways in the body, leading
to neurologic and immune changes. Over time,
heavy metal toxicity leads to chronic illness and
health complications. Detoxifying these heavy
metals from a living organism requires special
potent detoxifiers such as chlorella, cilantro,
calcium EDTA, DMSO and FIR saunas.
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• Cell phones have heavy metals which, when
  recovered, are used in jewelry, plating and the
  automotive and art industries, among others.
  Plastic cell phone arts are recycled to create
  new electronic and plastic equipment.
  Plasticizers act as xenoestrogens in living
  creatures. Microscopic amounts of these compounds
  mimic the role of estrogen in the body and
  imbalance hormonal pathways in the body, leading
  to chronic illness.

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How Does Recycling Electronics Help the
Environment through Pollution Reduction?

• By recycling one million laptops, the public can
  annually save the electrical energy of 3,500 US
  homes. By recycling one million cell phones, the
  industry recovers 915 thousand pounds of copper,
  silver, gold and palladium.

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Why Should Consumers Care?

• Manufacturers and retailers provide different
  ways to recycle electronics. Ask the retailer or
  search online for available resources and local
  programs. Together, small proactive behavioral
  changes can yield large environmental changes.
  Although educating the public and changing habits
  requires awareness, understanding, commitment and
  time, the long lasting choices consumers make on
  a daily basis drive the future health and wealth
  of nations. The public has the power to
  exponentially decrease the 167 million tons of
  annual landfill waste. To create change, act now.

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Questions? Comments?

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• Source
• http//www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecy
  cling/faq.htm
•  http//www2.epa.gov/recycle/electronics-donation-
  and-recycling
• http//www.recycleforce.org/recycling-services/e-w
  aste
• http//www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Electronics/WhatisEwa
  ste/
• http//www.fresnostate.edu/adminserv/ehsrms/enviro
  mgt/electwaste/example.htm

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