E-waste picture in WikipediaElectronic waste is still a problem in most of the country today. It causes serious health problems and pollution in the world. The reason why is because the electronic equipment contains some very serious contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominates flame retardants. In the U.S, we estimated that more than 70% of discarded computers and monitors eventually end up in landfills, which may leak lead, mercury, arsenic and other toxics into the ground and cause a big problem. Even if you do not put it outside but inside you house, somewhere safe, it still have indirect impact towards people. I don’t favor the action or the processing of E-waste, I think there’s a possible way to discard those computers but we haven’t figure out yet. Some people just throw the computers away because the mouse and the keyboard is broken, or even because the CPU not turn-on. Instead of doing that, we could fix it and reuse, or throw out anything that cannot be use anymore, but keep the things that we can be reuse again. It might be better.

I agree in what your saying about reusing all these electronics that dont work.All we're doing is spreading the toxins in the ground that can kill us.It's not fair that these 3rd world countries are suffering from our own waste.Its like that saying "guns dont kill people,people kill people" but instead of guns its e-waste.
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