Title: How Addiction to Electronics Affects the Environment & Our Lives
Headings: How Addiction to Electronics Affects the Environment & Our Lives
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How Addiction to Electronics Affects the Environment & Our Lives
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Content: Moreover, there are intensive levels of energy and work required to design, assemble, package, ship, and deliver them around the world to consumers. Not to mention that millions of devices are replaced once, twice, maybe even three times a year by customers eager for something better. This results in a large amount of hazardous household waste that is often irresponsibly discarded in the trash. When electronics are not recycled properly, the raw materials inside them leech toxic chemicals into the ground, spoiling both our water and food supply for decades, at least. For this reason, it is extremely important to recycle electronic devices in a proper manner. Consumer Electronic Waste
To get a better understanding of just how big our CE addiction is, let’s look at some telling statistics about electronics waste in the United States: In 2007, artist Chris Jordan created a 60″ x 100″ work of art entitled “ Cell Phones ,” which depicted 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired each day that year. That’s over 155 million cellphones per year that were either thrown away or recycled. Since then, the number has probably gone up appreciably. In 2009, 29.4 million computers were disposed of, but only 18 million computers were recycled properly.