This is a slideshow that I created after doing a research paper on E-waste. I think that the use of a visual aid to put the concept into perspective is beneficial.
3. What is e-waste? E-waste is short for Electronic waste, the term used to describe old, end-of-life or discarded appliances that use electricity. It includes but is not limited to computers, consumer electronics, and fridges which have been disposed of or recycled.
7. Electronics have become part of the throw away culture of developed countries. The amount of electronic waste (e-waste) that is discarded every year in developed countries continues to grow rapidly.
10. Guiyu is one of the biggest e-waste centers of the world. More than a million ton of e-waste is dismantled in this Chinese village every year. Women, children and men work under terrible conditions to extract all the precious metals from circuit boards, computers, pc's and other electronics. Nov. 1, 2008 Bert van Dijk
11. “Last year alone, the United States exported enough e-waste to cover a football field and rise a mile into the sky” (Allen).
15. The fate of E-waste The e-waste of developed countries ends up in China, India, Africa, and Latin America’s poor communities where e-waste is dismantled in appalling conditions, using primitive methods that fail to provide any protection to the workers and environment.
19. “a free trade in hazardous wastes leaves the poorer peoples of the world with an untenable choice between poverty and poison, a choice that nobody should have to make”(Puckett).