Have you heard about having a green thumb? Do you have one? Believe it or not, if you are contemplating selling your iPad, you might actually have green thumb tendencies.

1. Have you heard about having a green
thumb?
Do you have one?
On Being Believe it or not, if you are
contemplating
Green
selling your iPad, you might actually
have green thumb tendencies.
and Decreasing
E-waste

2. What Is a Green Thumb?
• According to Wiktionary.com, a green thumb is a
person who possesses “green fingers” or it is a
state of being “green-fingered” which means that
1 the person has an innate ability to grow plants.xz
• It is supported by the Urban Dictionary by saying
that a person with a green thumb is actually an
individual with an excellent way of keeping nature
2 healthy and teeming with life.

3. So what
does it
have to do
with online
selling?

4. Well, earning or gaining a green thumb through
online selling is associated with these meanings
but it does not mean the same thing. When I say
that you can earn a green thumb through online
selling, I mean it in a way where you can protect
these green things by not disturbing the
environment with harmful chemicals from
dumped electronic wastes or e-waste.

5. E-Wastes
E-wastes are the crimes committed by tech owners
when they happen to throw away their broken
gadgets irresponsibly. Throwing away things that
contains damaging elements like lead, cadmium and
radioactive residue will result in having our
surroundings polluted by e-wastes.
E-waste is really bad for human health as much as it
is for the animals and plants. It can pollute bodies of
water whether big or small in just a short span of
time. It can really destroy the lives of the creatures
living underwater, on land, and those who are
breathing air to survive. Of course, that includes us,
offenders of the crime.

6. Even if we are the very reason for having e-
wastes polluting our planet, we should still
not wait until our planet gets destroyed
before we come to realize that what we are
doing is wrong. It is definitely our
responsibility to take action and initiate a
change in our ways so we can turn the tide
against e-wastes.

7. Fighting E-wastes With Online Selling
We absolutely can fight e-wastes through online selling. Yes,
you read that right. A simple act of selling used iPads can
decrease electronic waste. This is because if we sell our old
and used electronic devices, they will be properly recycled
using only the best equipment of refurbishing companies.
This means that we no longer have to be worried about how
we can dispose of these devices without harming nature. We
can now rely on refurbishment companies and their
professional ways of getting rid of hazardous gadget parts
without endangering any life living on the planet.

8. It is a simple task to help contribute to thousands of advocacy
campaigns raised to protect nature and the planet as a whole.
It can be our one way ticket to restoring what has already been
damaged through the years of ignorance and obliviousness
about the destructiveness of e-waste.
As humans, we are in charge of doing this, more to ensure that
the illegal practice of incineration does not continue to
contribute to massive e-waste diffusion. And yes, not only will
you help in eliminating e-waste when you sell iPad online, you
also get some cash. It’s a win-win situation for everyone!