Title: Positive and negative effects of e-waste - Essay and speech
Headings: Positive and negative effects of e-waste
Positive and negative effects of e-waste
Positive and negative effects of e-waste
Positive effects of e-waste:
Employment opportunities
Acquiring rare earth metals
An alternative raw material
Low-cost education
Rural development
Negative effects of e-waste:
Risk to human health
Digital attacks
Environmental degradation

Content: Digital attacks
E-waste represents a dangerous route for data breaches, corporate espionage, and sale of personal data. Every electronic device carries some amount of private and exclusive information. A reach of wrong hand to such instruments may jeopardize the entire business of a company. Environmental degradation
For environmentalists, it is a catastrophe that pollutes soil, air, and water by hazardous chemicals and metals. Dumping and burning of e-waste in the landfills enlarges polluted air in metro cities. Workers extract precious metal and put the remains into the water bodies. When useless, people throw their phones, laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices into the rivers or burn them in open space. In addition to humans, such pollution endangers the flora and fauna. With technology advancing at the exponential rate, the need for an hour is to find sustainable, environment-friendly and cost-effective ways to manufacture new products. In addition, recovery process and recycling of e-waste will diminish the need for mining of new raw materials and reduce the burden on government.