Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  Every year, the United Nations Environment Program estimates that twenty to fifty million metric tons of e-waste are added to that heap.2 Look around your home: follow the trail from the wires plugged into their sockets, count the toasters, televisions, microwave ovens, DVD players, light bulbs, and other electronic goods; add to that medical devices in hospitals and sophisticated electronic equipment in offices and factories; multiply by several hundred million, and you can do your own calculations as to the dimensions of that future mass of electrical detritus. | | The EPA has concluded that e-waste is growing nearly three times faster than municipal waste.' They are the components of a time-release toxic debt-load for the multiplicity of cool and complicated electronic connections of modern life.
Resetting the Periodic Table
As I was writing this book, my printer, a five-year-old Epson 777 inkjet, died. Who knew the reason? Probably it was just age. I didn't bother to find out. | | The Basel Action Network, a Seattle-based non-governemental organization, sent investigators around the world and determined that at least 50 percent of the used cell phones, computers, televisions, and other e-waste that is collected for recycling in the United States is shipped overseas to scrap yards in places like Taiwan, the
Philippines, Nigeria, and China, where oversight has been minimal, at best. | | Even Europe, however, was slow in implementing a serious approach to e-waste, as Greenpeace's findings reveal. But in 2003, the EU began trying to get a handle on electronic waste. They started with recycling: the Waste in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive mandated that by the end of 2006, 75 to 80 percent of the components in electrical equipment, by weight, be recyclable. The EU encouraged research into materials that were less toxic and would biodegrade over time. | | That waste comes from discarded computers, cell-phones, DVD players, toasters, refrigerators, clock radios, medical devices— most everything powered by electricity. Every engineer in the room was now being required to rethink the ingredients that enable their complex networks of circuits and chips to work. The Europeans had banned six of those substances —mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and two chemical flame retardants called polybromi-nated biphenyl flame retardants—from all electrically powered devices. |
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