| How does electronics recycling help? One cell | | | | surplus electronics. Moving on to mobile phones, |
| phone can contaminate one hundred fifty-eight | | | | seven percent of cell phone owners still throw |
| gallons of water? Two and a half ounces of oil are | | | | away their old ones. That's a large market for |
| used to make one ink-jet cartridge, and in 2004 | | | | electronics recycling on a national level. |
| the number of ink-jet cartridges thrown away, if | | | | The importance of electronics recycling is evident |
| stacked end-to-end, would circle the earth? In | | | | when taking a closer look at electronic waste. Up |
| short, electronics recycling helps not only you, but | | | | to thirty-eight separate chemical elements are |
| everyone around you. It's one of those things | | | | incorporated in electronic waste. Many of the |
| where what you do personally actually helps | | | | plastics used in electronic equipment contain flame |
| others. | | | | retardants. These are typically halogens added to |
| Electronics recycling has been ramped up via rapid | | | | the plastic resin, making the plastics difficult to |
| technology change, low initial cost, and planned | | | | recycle. Because the flame retardants are |
| obsolescence. This makes for a fast-growing | | | | additives, they easily leach off the material in hot |
| surplus of electronic waste around the world. | | | | weather. This causes a problem because when |
| Electronic waste is a "rapidly expanding" problem. | | | | disposed of, electronic waste is normally left |
| Technical solutions are available, but in most cases | | | | outside and the flame retardants leach into the |
| a bundle of prerequisites such as legal framework, | | | | soil. Recorded levels are ninety-three times higher |
| a collection system, logistics, and other services | | | | than soil with no contact with electronic waste. |
| need to be implemented before application of that | | | | The unsustainability of discarding electronics and |
| technical solution. Whether its been applied or not, | | | | computer technology is a great reason to |
| electronics recycling, in the present, helps. | | | | advocate electronics recycling or re-using |
| In America, an estimated seventy percent of | | | | electronic waste. |
| heavy metals in landfills comes from discarded | | | | If you would like to help us with America's, and |
| electronics, while electronic waste represents only | | | | the world's, electronics recycling problem, we |
| two percent of America's trash in landfills. The | | | | promise to help you by clearing out some space |
| EPA says that unwanted electronics totaled two | | | | in your home, and saving you some money at |
| million tons in 2005 and that discarded electronics | | | | tax time. It won't cost you a penny to do what is |
| represented five to six times as much weight as | | | | right as we can show you how to do all of this |
| recycled electronics - hats off to electronics | | | | utilizing free shipping. In other words your recycled |
| recycling! So it makes sense when the Consumer | | | | items will be picked up at your doorstep for free. |
| Electronics Association estimates that U.S. | | | | You will also have available to you a Tax |
| households spend an average of fourteen hundred | | | | Deductible Donation Acknowledgment that will be |
| dollars annually on an average of twenty-four | | | | filled with an amount you believe the electronics |
| electronic items, leading to speculations of millions | | | | you just donated are worth. This can be used to |
| of tons of valuable metals in desk drawers. | | | | claim on your taxes at the end of the year. |
| Relative to this, the U.S. National Safety Council | | | | Electronics recycling, or I should say recycling in |
| estimates that seventy-five percent of all | | | | general, is politically right these days, affording us |
| personal computers ever sold are dust collectors - | | | | this special opportunity. |