Title: Top Solutions to E-waste Problems | Great Lakes Electronics Blog
Headings: Top Solutions to E-waste Problems
Top Solutions to E-waste Problems
The Cycle Of Old Electronics
E-Waste Solutions
What Are the Top Environmental Problems with e-waste?
How Can We Prevent It?
Learning From The Past: Urban Mining
Top Solutions to the E-waste Problem
1. Recycling
2. Education
3. Teach
4. Keep Learning
E-Waste Solutions

Content: The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that nearly 250 million computers will become obsolete in the next five years. E-waste contains a wide list of toxins, including mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and fire retardant. Cathode ray tubes in computer monitors contain high concentrations of lead. But in the U.S., most states leave it up to individual consumers to decide what they want to do with their discarded equipment, and most people are simply throwing them out, which is polluting our waterways, soil and air. How Can We Prevent It? Not enough consumers understand that environmental risk, but many of them also don’t seem to recognize something else: used electronics have a lot of inherent value that we don’t realize. The vast majority of electronics can be recycled, and the items within them that can be recovered include plastic, steel, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, and other precious metals. Those metals can be given a second life, and that’s why recycling is such an ideal solution to this problem. An experienced recycling firm like Great Lakes Electronics Corporation can take those devices apart, so the individual parts can be used in new products.