Friday, April 20th 2007
Mobile phones quickly Becoming a toxic waste problem
While we do focus on our computers a lot, most of us have something to remind us how much we love our technology while on the road: a cell phone. And this cell phone is turning into quite the issue. Driving distractions aside, cell phones do add one very negative effect to society: a huge pile of toxic waste. When people upgrade to the latest phone, they frequently throw away their old one. And these old cell phones contain such nasty chemicals as copper, nickel, antimony, and zinc. As time moves on, and phones decompose, the phone turns into a pile of toxic, hazardous mush. And when 700 million tiny piles of toxic mush make their way to the landfill, at an increasing rate of 130 million phones a year, we get several thousand pounds of toxic mush lying around in landfills everywhere. We really ought to find a better way to dispose of cell phones.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
10 Comments on Mobile phones quickly Becoming a toxic waste problem
Must be my fourth year with Nokia 6100, small, superlight, has all I need and still with orginal battery. Now I can brag about being enviroment friendly for not upgrading my phone (well take that back with computer upgrades :D).
www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/
plus their spokesperson is Richard Karn (Al from Home Improvement)!