Title: Electronic pollution - The upcoming environmental concern - Envibrary
Headings: Electronic pollution – The upcoming environmental concern
Electronic pollution – The upcoming environmental concern
What is electronic pollution?
What is e-waste?
The rising disposal of e-waste
How the e-waste radiation harms the environment?
E-waste: Global facts and figures
Adverse effects of e-waste on humans and the environment
IN THE NEWS!
E-waste management
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Arijit Samajdar

Content: With the release of new technology every year, people tend to adapt to a newer one rather old product. Thus it tends to another of clearance. Sometimes we could find that people discard old electronics at the least inconvenience and prefer new ones. It is not being lousy but we find certain cases like buying the new printer is much cheaper than its ink cartridges. The distribution of price pushes people to buy new products. The high cost of repairing the product also tends to more of replacing the old with the new one at a cheaper rate. Thus, replacing the older devices and gadgets with newer ones implies more and more disposal of the old ones. How the e-waste radiation harms the environment? Computers and entertainment centers and other electrical appliances convert the alternating current they are receiving to direct current which the equipment will use to power its activities using less electricity. In this process, high frequencies are produced that go out onto the electrical circuit and cause high-frequency electromagnetic waves to radiate out from the circuits.