The speed of device innovation is proportional to the speed at which these devices are discarded because they become "obsolete," resulting in a new problem: electronic waste. Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to all waste from electronic or electrical devices such as computers, cell phones, TVs, and so on.
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According to a United Nations study, the production of a single computer requires 240 kilograms of fossil fuel, 1,500 liters of water, and 22 kilograms of chemicals. The extraction of metals such as copper, platinum, and tin often causes significant ecological damage as well as serious labor rights violations. Later, when these metals are processed […]
Like other marine species, birds can also be impacted by marine debris through entanglement, ingestion, and habitat disruption. Entanglement: Fishing gear in the sea or on beaches is one of the main causes of bird entanglement, which can even lead to […]
The increase in the number of plastic islands in our oceans from one to four in the last 20 years—these "ecological aberrations" that have created new polluted areas in the seas of planet Earth—continues unabated and will not stop, at least not anytime soon. This is the unfortunate result of a study conducted […]
'Space debris' refers to active or inactive satellites that have been launched or decommissioned from orbit and sunk at sea, as well as old and operational space rockets and other objects resulting from fragmented debris, generated, for example, in explosions. Space debris orbiting the Earth […]
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