At Coastal Recycling Centers, we are committed to helping educate our customers
about recycling, the dangers of improper E-waste disposal and other important environmental
issues.
We hope you will find these articles educational and thought provoking.
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United Nations identifies E-waste as
an urgent and growing problem, wants
change
E-waste might be one of the biggest misnomers in the history of nomery --the
image it creates in the mind is of a bunch of email and document files clogging
up your local
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internet pipes. The reality of it is that electronic waste is rapidly populating
ever-growing landfill areas in so-called developing countries and the issue has
now garnered the attention of the United Nations.
The UN Environment Program has issued a wide ranging report warning that e-waste
in China and South Africa could double or even quadruple within the next decade,
whereas India could experience a five-fold rise. Major hazards exist in the unregulated
and informal recycling of circuit boards and techno gadgets, as processes like backyard
incineration for the retrieval of gold generate toxic gases while also being wildly
inefficient. The whole point of the report is to encourage some global cooperation
in setting up modern and safe recycling facilities in the affected countries to
ameliorate the problem, though being generally more careful in our consumption and
disposal of electronics wouldn't do the environment's chances any harm either.
