Presenting our e-waste project!

A clear principle is that sending e-waste to landfills or incinerators should be strictly prohibited.

Developed nations should not sell their ewaste but dispose of it properly.

Chinas e-waste disasters reveals that commonly used recycling practices can harm the environment more than the waste itself.

China banned the import of ewaste in 2000. The labor-intensive nature of electronics recycling has perpetuated a black market in the trade

In China and elsewhere have concern about the large quantities of ewastethat wealthy countries continue to dump in the developing world

it would reduce GH gas emissions equal to taking 1,368 cars off the road for a year.

Fewer than 20% of cell phones are recycled each year but if we recycled just a million cellphones,

One hundred thirty million cell phones are retired each year.

Ewatse often contain useful materials such as precious metals,glass,&plastics that should be recovered rather than buried in a landfill.

The European Union banned e-waste from landfills in the 1990's, and current laws hold manufacturers responsible for e-waste disposal.

Cathode ray tubes in older TVs and computers typically contain about 4 lbs of lead and sometimes as much as 7 lbs.

Flat panel computer monitors and notebooks often contain small amounts of mercury in the bulbs used to light them.

It’s energy efficient to rebuild old computers, but only about 2% of PCs ever find their way to a second user.

In 2005 US threw away 47 million computers, up from 20 million in 98.

Bc computer processing power doubles every two years, many old computers are being abandoned.

E-waste represents 2% of America's trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste.

The nation now dumps between 300 million and 400 million electronic items per year, and less than 20% of that e-waste is recycled.

The EU has adopted a directive requiring producers of electronics to recover and recycle e-waste.

Almost all manufacturers have in place some sort of a system to collect and recycle their used products.