Saturday, February 8, 2014

Disposal of your Electronic Devices - News 3

08.02.2014 10:47 Electronic products, they contain chemicals can cause great harm to the environment in terms.

– Electronic products, in terms they contain chemicals can cause great harm to the environment.

in the construction of electronic devices chlorinated solvents, brominated flame retardants, PVC, heavy metals, plastics and gases are used. Also in electronic goods lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, phosphorus, and are materials such as beryllium. Unwittingly trashed located in a small amount of mercury in fluorescent, 30 thousand liters of water can pollute. From this point of separate collection of electronic waste

at source will be important.

Nature 10 grams of lead involved in the violation of the territory of 25 thousand tons, 200 thousand liters of water can make it unusable. In a study conducted in seven years, the computer becomes unusable 300 million 500 thousand tons of lead were found to be. 10 grams of lead pollute the earth 25 thousand tons to 500 thousand tons of lead Considering the damage size is reaching environmental disaster. Nature of discarded electronic waste is mixed with substances in soil and water, into the human body through here to lose the function of many organs causes.

Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality in order to avoid all these risks by collecting electronic waste recycling at source also offers. Electronic waste into the economy by the natural resources are protected. With practice, while providing energy savings and the amount of waste is reduced. Average of 15 tons of electronic waste around 1 ton of copper is achieved.

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