SOLUTIONS.

E-WASTE A BIG
ENVIRONMENTAL

Reduce the consumption of

products that ultimately become e-waste by maintaining older equipment or purchasing
higher quality products with a
longer useful life.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Reuse products by selling

them or donating them to others, especially computer reuse organizations, extending
their useful life and keeping
them out of the waste stream.

Recycle your unwanted electronics with an environmentally responsible recycler who

will either refurbish them for
reuse.

PROBLEM.

www.greenpeace.org/
international/en/news/
features/e-waste-toxic-not-inour-backyard210208/

ANDREA
ANGULO
CASTAEDA.

www.totalreclaim.com/ewaste_problem.html

www.step-initiative.org/
index.php/
Initiative_WhatIsEwaste.html

www.greenpeace.org/
international/en/campaigns/
toxics/electronics/the-e-wasteproblem/where-does-e-wasteend-up/

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WHAT IS

HEALTH

AFFECTED

E-WASTE?

PROBLEMS.

SITES.

E-waste is a term used to

cover almost all types of
electrical and electronic
equipment that has or
could enter the waste
stream.

Precursors to

E-waste is routinely exported

by developed countries to
developing ones, often in violation of the international law.

In the UK alone, at least

23,000 metric tonnes of undeclared or 'grey' market
electronic waste was illegally
shipped in 2003 to the Far
East, India, Africa and China.

Mainland China tried to prevent this trade by banning

the import of e-waste in 2000.

E-waste is still arriving in Guiya of Guangdong Province,

the main centre of e-waste
scrapping in China.

Cardiovascular
disease.

Although e-waste is a
general term, it can be
considered to cover TVs,
computers,
mobile
phones, white goods etc.
Electronic equipment
and gadgets are the fastest
growing
waste
stream in many countries.

DNA damage.

Possibly Cancer