What is E-waste? Why should E-waste matter? Why should you read about it? Well, it has started hurting the environment around you and you better take note of it before it is too late.

E-waste is your cell phone, laptop and toys, anything you reject after it gets old or stops functioning the way you want it to. Anything electronic, that is and that’s where the problem starts. Think about it, how your favorite electronics manufacturer produce goods? Is that a simple process? Does it contain only a few parts? No! A simple battery has chemicals unheard of. The rarer a material is, the more it is going to be problematic. We essentially dispose of an amalgam of matters sourced from different parts of the world, processed as different as chalk and cheese into a simple bin, only to end up in a landfill. Where else could it go? A scrapyard, where easily extractable and usable parts are harvested. And then the rejects end up leaching into the earth through the roads, into the groundwater, into the soil, introducing alien chemicals into its environment.

Chemicals the crops aren’t accustomed to people aren’t used to drinking bodies aren’t supposed to be exposed to and that’s how you kill nature.

There’s still a way and the way is lit by the light of knowing recycling. Recycling isn’t the least solution to all the problem associated with E-waste, however, it is a start on this long voiced ahead.