Prevention of E-waste


This can be done primarily through reusing and recycling electronics. Preventing waste in the first place is usually preferable to any waste management option... including recycling.

Donating electronics for reuse extends the lives of valuable products and keeps them out of the waste management system for a longer time.

By donating your used electronics, you allow schools, non-profit organisations, and lower-income families to use equipment that they otherwise could not afford.

Recycling electronics avoids pollution and the need to extract valuable and limited resources. It also reduces the energy used in new product manufacturing.

As with all great new social movements, there is a list of questions you can badger ask your friendly neighbourhood cell phone salesman with regards to his company’s efforts to help prevent e-wastage (answer: he doesn’t know), which can be found here, complete with rationale.

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