eWaste
Submitted by President on Tue, 28/10/2008 - 09:00.
An increasingly common sight, electronic waste or ewaste, is found amongst the items dumped in our bushland or left by the roadside for hard waste collection. 
I lament that the valuable resources that make up these electronic goods is going to landfill instead of being recycled and continuing its useful life. Some of the valuable elements of electronic waste include gold and platinum. They can also include many toxic materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic which need to be disposed of properly. Sending these items to landfill is both wasteful and dangerous.
The good news is that there are programs now in place to enable you to recycle your old computer monitors, mobile phones or other electronic goods. The not so good news is that each of these is a separate program that targets each electronic item separately - which makes sense from the recycling end of things but is a bit inconvenient from the disposal side. You may also have to travel some distance to drop off your unwanted item.
Computers
An increasingly common sight, electronic waste or ewaste, is found amongst the items dumped in our bushland or left by the roadside for hard waste collection. You can stumble across these discarded items almost anywhere it seems, as I did the other day along the Warburton Trail.
I lament that the valuable resources that make up these electronic goods is going to landfill instead of being recycled and continuing its useful life. Some of the valuable elements of electronic waste include gold and platinum. They can also include many toxic materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic which need to be disposed of properly. Sending these items to landfill is both wasteful and dangerous.
The good news is that there are programs now in place to enable you to recycle your old computer monitors, mobile phones or other electronic goods. The not so good news is that each of these is a separate program that targets each electronic item separately - which makes sense from the recycling end of things but is a bit inconvenient from the disposal side. You may also have to travel some distance to drop off your unwanted item.We need a more integrated approach to ewaste that makes it more user-friendly so that more people will dispose of their electronic goods more responsibly.
Computers
Mobile phones
Mobile Muster
Have a number of local drop off points or you can pick up a free recycling satchel at participating Australia Post outlets.
For more information on how to recycle your electronic waste go to this link.
Mobile Muster
Have a number of local drop off points or you can pick up a free recycling satchel at participating Australia Post outlets.
For more information on how to recycle your electronic waste go to this link.
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