Electronic Waste Disposal’s Hazardous Impacts

What are Causes of Environmental Pollution?

Developed and Wealthy Countries advanced technology developments have led consumers to upgrade their electronic equipments continuously. For global economic growth these developments are may be good, but there is also harmful health problems are associated with them, due to these electronic developments create a lot of toxic electronic-waste.

The most of people assumed that the wastage of toxic electronic can be reduced, through the process of recycling and environment will be well protected by recycling all the unwanted equipments. But we are assuming it wrong, due to the products which generated by recycling process causing air pollution and water impurity to very high pH levels.

For Disposal of electronic trash and save cost, advanced and wealthy countries send them to those countries there is no environmental safety or health regulations. Asian Countries are larger recipients of electronic waste, as they import used electronic equipments in their countries but that equipments are involved with a lot of toxic electronic-waste. China have Electronic Waste Center to expose such uncontrolled environment disasters, the center is located in Guiyu District, near China’s Southeast Cost. The Electronic Waste Centre had many workshops for dismantling and breaking up the imported electronic trash.

Piece by piece painstakingly dismantling of imported trash like old computers, video & DVD players, hi-fi-systems, speakers, scanners, batteries, hand-phones, etc., segregated in different categories like printed circuit boards, plastic parts, metal parts and components. Strip Copper wires for metal and to obtain lead solder, circuit boards are graded for melting or to salvage precious metals like gold and palladium and place them in concentrated acid bath. The trash that remains after all dismantling and breaking up process are disposed off in the open air by burning it, which causes severe environmental pollution, with smell of hazardous rubber, paint burn and plastic in the air.

Lead Content in High Level Can Affect Brain Development and Health of Children’s

The Streams and Lakes are seriously contaminated by electronic waste, which is around the recycling workshops region, as they leave toxic by-products and pollutants while burning electronic waste. The Water samples measurement or pH readings taken from the streams shows pH readings as high as 1-2, it means there is strong acid solution instead of water (H2O). The High Level of Lead Contents has been detected into children whose parents are working in circuit board salvage. Levels of Lead Contents can affect children’s brain development and health as high level of lead found in their blood.

There are many cases reported of such incidences of headaches, vertigo, chronic gastritis, skin damage, nausea, duodenal ulcers, gastric, deformed babies and miscarriages among all those people who are involved in hazardous work filed. The recycling process of Electronic waste may have created opportunities for the rural people in employment or helped them in eradicate poverty but it’s been so costly for them, as they are suffering health and disaster in living environment.

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