Everyone wants to own the latest and most recent technology gadget that is launched in the market. A staggering number of electronic devices are introduced every month. But what happens to the old ones? Most people just throw them in their storage somewhere and come across them after long periods. They want to get rid of the gadget by that time, but it is not an easy task. One cannot just throw out their computer in the garbage and pretend like the problem is solved. This junk turns into electronic waste. More and more electronic waste is filling up the landfills of our beautiful Earth. This causes a lot of havoc in the environment.

Making the Environment Safe

Within the last one hundred years, mankind has completely destroyed the ecosystems and their environment. Electronic waste increases pollution drastically. These gadgets are filled with toxic materials and harmful chemicals. Once they leak into the nearby water reservoirs, they become undrinkable. Animals and human beings using this water source can become sick and eventually die.

Similarly, these devices are filled with metals, which start eroding when it rains. This further pollutes the water that goes into the nearby rivers or water reserves. Plants, animals, humans, microorganisms, and every living thing are severely affected by this impure water. Furthermore, some of the metals react with oxygen in the environment and create toxicants. The air becomes impure and non-breathable. In areas where this is common, children are more likely to grow up with diseases like asthma and other breathing ailments.

Freeing Up Space for Living Things

If you go around in third-world countries, in more impoverished areas of the cities and villages, you will find huge dumps filled with electronic waste. The amount of land that this waste takes up in our world is getting more extensive day by day. With the increasing human population of our world, there is a dire need for more land to live on, grow crops, and manage livestock. But since there is a lot of electronic waste that has to be dumped somewhere, none of this is possible. The rapid increase in e-waste implies that the area for human beings to live in will reduce.

Reuse Materials

Our electronic gadgets are full of useful materials such as plastic, metals, and chemicals. Most of the materials inside those electronics are reusable. After tearing the electronic devices carefully apart, all the metal wires can create other things such as electrical wires.

Similarly, many components of your mobile phones and computers are made of plastic. This plastic is extracted from the devices and sold off to manufacturing industries. They use it for various different products such as plastic dustbins, chairs, and many more.

Glass is difficult to create. A lot of energy and effort is spent on making a solid piece of glass. By extracting the glass pieces out of our electronic gadgets, they can be used in other products.