As much as 80 percent of discarded electronics end up in the trash rather than being recycled in a responsible manner. Environmentalists say, they are dumping electronic trash in developing countries where instead of factory workers educated on the subject on how to properly dispose of electronic garbage do it, but instead they ship it to developing countries where low paid workers take apart computers, televisions, cell phones and other electronic equipment in ways that are neither safe for the worker nor the environment.
U.S. lawmakers recently initiated a bill that would make the practice illegal.
Discussion
In the throwaway society we live in today, just buying a new cell phone or a new computer has become a basic staple of how we live, and in a throwaway society everyone is guilty, and then in this case the only crime is getting caught. The things we are doing are not acceptable, and now we have the data to prove it. Because of the things we do there are countries like china where we in later years have been able to trace lead in the blood of infants and children, because of the dumping of electronic garbage in rivers and lakes.
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