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The world is increasingly going hi-tech. Many people in our high consumption society want the latest and the greatest; last year’s much anticipated laptops and cell phones are miles behind the newest models that are coming out. So what happens with the old models? Even thrift stores are politely not accepting them as donations. Even some workable machines that were highly valuable 10 years ago are now functionally trash in our society. We can’t put it to the curb to end up in the landfill because of the lead, mercury, and other hazardous materials that can leak into the environment. This type of trash is what we call e-waste. The geography of e-waste is an ‘out of sight out of mind’ problem that we rarely think about but need to due to the ecological impacts of our collective consumption.
Tags: pollution, sustainability, environment, resources, Ghana, Africa.
Gene Gagne's curator insight,
November 4, 2015 4:04 PM
This is why there is so much illegal dumping that goes on because these companies make this hi-tech equipment knowing full well it becomes outdated in now probably a few years because they already have it planned out with new stuff every year to keep production going. Guess where all this dumping goes? To the poor countries let them deal with it. Really nice.
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The world is increasingly going hi-tech. Many people in our high consumption society want the latest and the greatest; last year’s much anticipated laptops and cell phones are miles behind the newest models that are coming out. So what happens with the old models? Even thrift stores are politely not accepting them as donations. Even some workable machines that were highly valuable 10 years ago are now functionally trash in our society. We can’t put it to the curb to end up in the landfill because of the lead, mercury, and other hazardous materials that can leak into the environment. This type of trash is what we call e-waste. The geography of e-waste is an ‘out of sight out of mind’ problem that we rarely think about but need to due to the ecological impacts of our collective consumption.
Tags: pollution, sustainability, environment, resources, Ghana, Africa.
Gene Gagne's curator insight,
November 4, 2015 4:04 PM
This is why there is so much illegal dumping that goes on because these companies make this hi-tech equipment knowing full well it becomes outdated in now probably a few years because they already have it planned out with new stuff every year to keep production going. Guess where all this dumping goes? To the poor countries let them deal with it. Really nice.
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