How Can Reducing E-waste Help Our Socity? 

One question you may ask is, why should we take initiative into reducing E-waste emissions. The answer to this question relies on the fact that many people are not aware of electronics contain valuable elements inside them. Those elements can then later be used which will save the government money.

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Valuable Materials In Electronic Compoenets

The internal parts of electronics contain elements such as gold, copper, and aluminum. It is estimated that recovering those valuable elements would cost 13 times less than manufacturing them. For example, in 2016 recovered materials saved manufacturers $64.4 billion which is a huge amount of money. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency said, “One metric ton of circuit boards can contain 40 to 800 times the amount of gold and 30 to 40 times the amount of copper mined from one metric ton of ore in the United States” (cho).

How Eliminating E-Waste Can Perufiy The Environemnt 

During our current days, E-waste may be disposed by the following. Landfills, informal recycling, or incineration. All of those electronic waste disposal practices implement tremendous pollution to the environment, as they pollute the air, and the soil (Planet Green Recycling).