EDPT2 E-waste Reflection Student Names & IDs 1.
2. 3. 4. { Report should be around 500 words long } Chapter 1 Introduction E-waste ( Electronic-waste) refers to the disposal of unwanted electronic products, such as computer parts, television and phones, due to surplus.
Countries like China and USA lead are the world’s leading producers of E-waste and have been estimated to manufacture an astounding 7.2 million and 6.2 tons of E-waste respectively in 2018. (Envirotech-online.com, 2018). E-waste production has been increasing at a constant rate from approximately 32 million tons and is estimated to increase to 50 million tons in 2018. In addition, the expected shelf life of electronic such as computers have Chapter 2 E-waste Problems Electronic products contains multiple harmful products such as lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants, hexavalent chromium and polyvinyl chloride. These electronic products are thrown away daily to wastelands. The harmful products will then leak into the nearby soil and contaminate the river.
And as the result of this, the plants and water is now contaminated and is hazardous to the residents of the area. Chapter 3 E-waste Re-cycling and its problems While e-waste contains toxic products, it also have multiple useful and valuable metals like copper, steel, gold, aluminium. It also contains glass. All of these materials can be recycled and recovered and be used on new products.
This reduce the It requires a lot of manpower and quite an amount of time to recycle e-waste and also the gases that it produced when u are trying to take out the metals are poisonous. Chapter 4 Proposed solution Stop building desktop and upgrading it just stop everything Chapter 5 Conclusions Building desktop or upgrading causes this problem . https://www.envirotech-online.com/news/health-and-safety/10/breaking-news/which-countries-produce-the-most-e-waste/46470 http://tcocertified.com/news/global-e-waste-reaches-record-high-says-new-un-report/
