Recycling Computer Equipment

The evolution of technology has banes and boons. Life became easier since the time when technology was invented. Its rapid development has even further enhanced the way of life in general. Doing more in less time and doing big or heavy things easily are achieved with the help of technology products. Comes with this is the harm that it gives to the environment and to the people in general.

Since technology is evolving fast, the things that it produces also quickly becoming obsolete. The need to replace them with newer versions that better serve the users’ needs is inevitable. If the obsolete models are replaced, what would happen to them? Are they just destined to the garbage pit under the earth? Unfortunately, the answer is YES, they are.

Computer equipments are highly toxic to the environment. According to the research that 75% of obsolete computer equipment products are being thrown into the garbage pit, and stored like a time bomb waiting to blow off the earth.

Computer parts such as cathode ray tubes, circuit boards and other related materials contain chromium, mercury, and lead. These elements are highly dangerous. If they are thrown in traditional ways such as dumping them in a garbage can to be thrown later in a dumping site or under few feet below the ground, they would be absorbed by the soil and underground water. Hence, majority of the community are relying merely on underground water, great health risk will be coming at hand. The landfill, where the technology product wastes are dumped, is the most hazardous place. The incineration of wastes would bring toxic elements into the air. Air and water pollution can kill not only the trees, water, air, land and all sorts of environmental components, but such pollutions can also kill the inhabitants of the earth, the humans.

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