The new dawn TV- almost no house from it.You see it in one of the corners of the drawers, warehouses, or kitchen cabinets, intertwined and accumulated dust and awaiting its last fate in going to the trash..It is the remains of old electronic devices.
This electronic waste has become a dangerous phenomenon, as it is very increasing in the quantity, and if you want to imagine the amount of electronic waste that each person leaves annually, think how many times have you changed your mobile phone, mobile, tablet, tablet, TV or otherwise from now.What about the rest of your family, friends and neighbors?Have you ever thought about what is the fate of the old device that you get rid of?
As the famous proverb says, "far from the eye is far from the heart", so you rarely find someone who thinks about the fate of waste and the trash that he gets rid of the moment it comes out of the door.When you get rid of your computer or mobile phone, move to a landfill where there are tons of waste mountains that are waiting to burn and dispose of them.
45 billion kilograms, or 50 million tons, is the amount of electronic waste that humans produce annually, and this number is expected to double in the next two years..According to the statistics of one of the companies responsible for re -manufacturing in the country, in 2004 alone, about 315 million personal computers became invalid for use, and 850 million mobile phones were produced in 2005.The International Federation of Mobile Works has stated that the number of subscriptions in mobile lines will increase globally from 3.9 billion in 2008 to 5.6 billion in 2013.
The reasons for this increase in consumption are due to the default life palace of the device, for example, while the age of the 1997 computer was reaching seven years, now it is not more than three years old..This palace in the shelf life is the result of the development of technology that made manufacturers be able to increase the speed of devices every 18 months, to replace them with what is newer than them, as the consumer wants to get the latest and fastest possible as possible.But these manufacturers also have a role in increasing waste, some of them make devices so that they are easy to damn and unable to resist shocks, and if they are damaged, their repair is difficult and expensive and difficult to have repair pieces, so the consumer finds that it is easier to throw old jazz and replace it with new, to end upWith the old device in one of the waste mountains, to be burned with other waste.
But the burning of an electronic device is an environmental disaster in itself."The materials used in an electronics industry containing many heavy metals and toxic materials with an adult damage to health and the environment.This waste is very different from the regular waste because it contains substances such as mercury, lead, and arsenic.And when the electronic waste is eliminated incorrectly, it produces very toxic materials."
"The first of the electronic waste is the human being, then the other elements come in the environment such as air, water, and soil, where minerals, plastic and chemical materials that make up electronic devices are accumulated as the circuit plates Electrical, glass pipes, wires, resistors, and other internal appliances, in addition to containing heavy metals, including mercury, cadmium, and tin that work to pollute groundwater and classify them as dangerous waste that prevents import to the state in accordance with Federal Law No. 24 of 1999 regarding the protection and development of the environment..
For example, computer and television screens contain up to 3.6 kilograms of bullets, which affects the blood and the proportion of intelligence in children if they are exposed to it if one of the devices is broken.As for the flat screens, it contains mercury that may harm the nervous system.This also includes batteries of all kinds, which are prohibited in trash because of the lithium material used in its manufacture of toxic effects on the environment.According to an Australian study on electronic waste, it was found that it constitutes the largest part of the groundwater pollution in California and Japan, which made it take quick measures by setting laws to reduce the amount of electronic waste.
Although we do not feel the effects of direct electronic waste on us, there are cities in some developing countries that have become semi -buried under millions of tons of electronic waste that they receive from the countries of the first world, such as Lagos in Nigeria, which is reached monthly 500 tanks and a container with a load equivalent to 400,000 computer screen or 175,000 large TVs."The export of waste for some developing countries to extract precious metals used in its manufacture may seem attractive because it is a cheap and profitable way..
But in this process, the waste is removed in an incorrect way.From it, then throw it in the streams of water and the soil, so that nature becomes polluted and the population becomes vulnerable to cancer and congenital abnormalities due to the radiation issued by the materials mentioned above..
If the individual's consumption of electronic devices persists without awareness of its damages to the environment, this means only the accumulation of millions of additional tons of waste every year.This means more harm to health and the environment.The engineer, Ahaiba Al -Qadid, recommends that the selection of the least harmful electronic devices to the environment and the lack of indiscriminate disposal of this waste, and cooperation with the competent authorities in the proper disposal of this waste.The Ministry is carrying out many programs and activities to reduce the negative impact of electronic waste, in coordination and cooperation with the relevant authorities."In addition, I recommended the economy and taking into account the environment when using the consumption of electronic devices, so that we are keen to use the device until the end of its shelf life, and we try to reduce the purchase of the devices that we do not need, and seek to repair the broken electronic devices without getting rid of them and replace them as possible.
On the other hand, the best solution to dealing with electronic waste is to recycle them in the correct way in order to extract toxic materials and prevent them from mixing with the environment, and re -use some materials such as plastic and glass, and other precious materials such as gold and silver.In the UAE, many special and governmental initiatives seek to promote the recycling of electronic materials, in addition to the spread of garbage containers designated for re -manufacturing in many public and private ports in the Emirates.It adds to the engineer of Ahbi Al -Qaid.While the ministry worked on the project to recycle mobile phones, which aims to collect and properly dispose of mobile phones in the country and coordination has been coordinated with companies specialized in this field, and the offers submitted to choose the company and start implementing the project are currently being evaluated.."
Recycling is not only the benefits of the environment and health by making the amount of waste decreases and preventing unhealthy methods by getting rid of them, but also preserves a lot of space from being lost in the waste and collecting waste.According to the Abu Dhabi Center for Welding Management, Abu Dhabi loses two million square meters of land annually, as a result of converting them into waste burials.
Also, the re -manufacturing is due to a lot of material profits, first, because the recycling of electronics helps to extract gold, silver and copper used in its manufacture, so recycling 25 tons of mobile phones, for example, returns with ten kilograms of gold with a value exceeding three hundred thousand dollars.And re -extracting these mineral wealth, which cost a lot to extract, will return with the material good.In addition, the re -use of plastic and glass by manufacturers and others will save a lot of money that was spent on buying new raw materials and processing them to be suitable for using.According to the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center, the national economy loses 1.5 billion dirhams annually, as a result of not recycling and re -manufacturing waste.