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The amount of electric waste worldwide reached 444.7 million tons last year. This means 4,500 Eiffel Towers or 9 Pyramids of Giza. These numbers are unbelievable, and the game turns worst since only 20% of the e-waste produced is recycled. In the least developed countries such as Cambodia, the big mountains of old equipment are growing higher, polluting the environment with toxic materials.
People enjoy technology's benefits daily but not all of us care about the big impact of e-waste on the environment.
Every year thousands of brands launch new tech devices and equipment. Users are always looking to upgrade their old devices by purchasing the new model. This causes a dilemma for a user on what to do with the old unit that is no longer used. It is something sad to see that even when IT Equipment is almost in general designed to have a long-lasting life, the users throw away their old equipment. I make a big emphasis here because 1 or 2 years do not turn your equipment into something old.
Business and technology go hand-in-hand. When your devices become obsolete, you must recycle them in a green way to keep our environment clean and safe. We use the term “e-waste” to refer those obsolete, outdated, or broken equipment. Thi...
How does your electronics disposal efficiency rate?
How does an organization measure the efficiency of the disposal of electronic products? What are the different channels of e-waste, and do we really need to measure them?
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From the decade of the 80s, a new culture arose, concerned with rescuing the environment and reducing the harmful effects that parts and chemicals derived from e-waste, throw into the garbage dumps of the world.
Many companie...