E-WASTE FACTS THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU

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Introduction
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THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU
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• In the year 2008, we generated 3.16 million tons
  of e-waste. We only recycled 13.6 or it, says
  the EPA. E-waste will continue to increase, as
  consumer electronics are developing a shorter
  shelf-life, and because of a societal desire to
  have the next best gadget.

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9 E-waste Facts about America

• E-waste comprises only two percent of U.S. trash
  in landfills, but equals seventy percent of
  overall toxic waste.
• Americans dump phones containing over sixty
  million dollars in gold and silver every year.
• Recycling one million laptops saves enough energy
  to power 3,657 United States homes in a year.
• The United States and China are the worlds
  biggest producers of electronic waste and most of
  the home appliances, computers and smartphones
  they toss out are never recycled.
• E-waste is the fastest growing stream of
  municipal waste in the U.S.

• The United States pledged to reduce its emissions
  by twenty six to twenty eight percent by 2025.2
  in November 2014
• In the year 2010, the United States produced
  about three million tons of e-waste.
• Sixty eight percent of Americans stockpile
  electronics
• About eighty percent of e-waste in the United
  States is exported to Asia.

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E-waste Facts about the world

• 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are
  disposed worldwide every year.
• By 2017, the amount of discarded e-products
  throughout the world is projected to be thirty
  three percent higher than in 2012, and will
  weight the equivalent of eight of the Great
  Egyptian Pyramids.
• The amount of e-waste being produced could rise
  by as much as five hundred percent throughout the
  next decade in particular countries, for example,
  India.
• Twenty to fifty million tons of e-Waste are
  generated worldwide every year.
• Three hundred million computers and one billion
  cell phones are produced every year. This is
  expected to grow by eight percent every year,
  indefinitely.

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General E-Waste Facts

• A large amount of what we call e-waste is not
  actually waste at all, but whole electronic
  equipment or parts that can be readily available
  for reuse or can be recycled for materials. Only
  12.5 percent of e-waste is recycled currently.
• For every one million cellular phones we recycle,
  33,274 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75
  pounds of gold and 33 pounds of palladium can be
  restored from the material.
• To manufacture a single computer and monitor, it
  takes five hundred and thirty pounds of fossil
  fuel, 1.5 tons of water and forty eight pounds of
  chemicals.
• Electronic devices that are considered to be
  hazardous to our health include televisions and
  computer monitors, LCD televisions, Plasma TVs,
  and portable DVD players with LCD screens.

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It does not take too much effort to take care of
your electronic waste responsibly. After reading
these e-waste facts, hopefully youll do your
part to pitch in!
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