slide 1: How Does E-Waste Recycling
Help The Environment
Electronic waste is one of the most harmful forms of waste on
our planet. It has been estimated that in the years 2014 and
2016 electronic waste globally rose seven percent. The
problem of e-waste is a severe one and should not be
underestimated by companies governing bodies and
consumers because the impact of global warming will get worse
with time. Certified electronic recyclers provide an effective
method of dealing with e-waste in a reliable and eco-friendly
manner. Let us have a look at some of the benefits of recycling
electronic waste:
slide 2: Diminishing the usage of virgin materials
A kind of recycling that can decrease the amount of energy that
is exhausted is urban recycling. The method consists of
reclaiming raw materials like electronic waste. Also urban
mining is way more cost-effective than mining virgin materials
from the surface of the earth. The transportation of raw virgin
materials also burns up huge amounts of energy as does the
manufacture of virgin materials. Recycling of e-waste
considerably decreases the amount of energy needed because
extracting brand new commodities require a good amount of
money time as well as energy that can be spent somewhere
else.
Decrease toxic materials from e-waste
An excess of toxins is generated from electronic waste with
lead being the most common toxic material generated. A lot of
circuit boards comprise of heavy metals while batteries contain
cadmium and lithium that can leak out in case they are not
disposed of in an ethical and safe manner. Also a lot of LCD
screens comprise of mercury while cathode ray tubes are
formed of leaded glass that can greatly affect the environment
if not disposed of in a proper manner.
A lot of steps are required to be taken in order to decrease the
amount of lead mercury cadmium chromium and other
deadly materials from pervading the waste stream. Mercury is
slide 3: generally found in compact fluorescent lights and accounts for
a neurotoxin that can kill in just a few minutes. A lot of
materials that are not recycled end up in landfills where they
rot and their toxic waste products ultimately reach the
groundwater. Moreover the recycling process needs to be
thorough and needs to be conducted only by a responsible
ITAD company or electronic recycler that is wholly certified by
the applicable regulatory agencies.
Recovery of valuable resources
Electronic recycling helps in recovering important natural
resources. According to a study by the University of the United
Nations companies are required to move a metric ton of ore to
mine one gram of gold. Nevertheless by recycling electronic
slide 4: waste companies can extract the same quantity of gold from
around forty used smartphones. Thus a lot of rare metals can
be obtained from a range of common electronic devices like
computers phones and tablets. There are also various
geological warfare and conflicts that can be avoided or reduced
by recycling of the electronic waste by recycling electronic
waste.
Recycling of e-waste can decrease a range of geopolitical
conflicts and is also very eco-friendly and economically
beneficial than extracting raw material from the surface of the
earth.