E-Waste

This weeks post is about E-waste, which is all about the disposal of electronic devices or hardware called E-waste. It can also be defined as the disposal of telecommunication equipment.Sure it sounds like an everyday thing but it is seriously becoming a major environment issue.Every where you go people are throwing away old computer monitors, key boards, scanners,and other electronic equipment.Disregarded electronic waste is accumulating at an alarming rate world wide.
According to Environment Canada,Canadians threw out an estimated 167,000 tonnes of E-waste in 2002 and the amount was estimated to increase by 2010 to about 206,000 tonnes. Disposal of electronic equipment should not be a problem normally, but the thing is that most of them contain harmful substances that are very dangerous to the environment. A major example is the computer monitor which contain cathode rays that use lead oxide. Another cause leads to Moore's law which was made by one of the founders of Intel Gordon Moore, which says that the number of transistors and resistors placed in a computer chip would double every year with proportional increase in the computing power and a decrease in cost this is also a cause because the rate at which computers become obsolete is increasing and the rate at which people throw or dispose of computer parts is increasing and instead of people buying new parts people throw away their computer parts. The worst part of all of this is that a majority of the worlds population are unaware of the situation this is also a cause because those that are unaware will keep on diposing of these E-wastes without realy knowing that what they are doing is very dangerous to the society.