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Electronic Ruins

Electronic Ruins. The Grecian Statues of the Modern World Maggie Blaha Professor Roger Philips . So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur With the rude Wasting of old time—with a billowy main— A sun—a shadow of a magnitude

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Electronic Ruins

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  1. Electronic Ruins The Grecian Statues of the Modern World Maggie BlahaProfessor Roger Philips

  2. So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur With the rude Wasting of old time—with a billowy main— A sun—a shadow of a magnitude Jon Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”

  3. Definition of Electronic Waste (e-waste) • There is no standard or generally accepted definition of e-waste in the world (Widmer et al. 2005) • Any of these discarded surplus or obsolete EE items: • Computers • Mobile phones • TVs • Household appliances • CDs and DVDs

  4. Formal vs. Informal Recycling • “Waste recycling companies worry that there are insufficient sources of e-wastes for their operation, as informal collectors and second-hand dealers remove e-waste from the waste stream before formal recycling companies can get it” (Yang, 2008).

  5. China’s Production & Consumption of Electrical & Electronic (EE) Devices • PC domestic shipments in China for 2012 are projected to reach 83.6 million units (HIS iSuppli Market Research). • Over one billion people have a mobile phone, which is 75% of China’s total population • 400,000,000 television sets

  6. Guiyu: The E-Waste Capital • Located in Guangdong region • World’s second most polluted spot • Accommodates millions of tons of overseas and domestic e-waste/year • 60-80% of the families are engaged in small-scale e-waste recycling operations

  7. The Danger to E-Waste Workers • Each computer display contains 4-8 pounds of lead and monitor glass contains 20 pounds of lead by weight • When these components are illegally disposed of, the lead seeps into the environment • Mercury used in switches and circuit boards seeps into the environment when they are burned • Exposure to carbon black in printers has been known to cause lung cancer

  8. Resolution • Replace all informal recycling centers with formal ones • Enforce producer, consumer, and importer responsibility • Phase-out obsolete production • Employ current e-waste workers in new recycling centers • Enforce strict regulation measures for importing illegal e-waste

  9. References Black, C. (2008). Shanghaied? How the commercial value of electronic waste has deterred efforts to regulate its movement from the United States to China: The resulting impact on the Chinese economy and environment. Selected Works, 1-70. Huo, X., Peng, L., Xu, X., Zheng, L., Qiu, B., Qi, Z., Zhang, B., Han, D., & Piao, Z. (2007). Elevated blood lead levels of children in Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling town in China. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(7), 1113-1117. Liu, X., Tanaka, M. & Matsui, Y. (2006). Electrical and electronic waste management in China: Progress and barriers to overcome. Waste Management & Research, 24, 92-101. doi: 10.1177/0734242X06062499. Tong, X., Lifset, R., & Lindhquist, T. (2005). Extended producer responsibility in China: Where is “best practice”? Journal of Industrial Ecology, 8(4), 6-9. Veenstra, A., Wang, C., Fan, W., & Ru, Y. (2009). An analysis of e-waste flows in China. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 47, 449-459. Wang, Y., Ru, Y., & Veenstra, A. (2010). Recent developments in waste electrical and electronics equipment legislation in China. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 47, 437-448. doi: 10.1007/s00170-009-2339-6. Westcott, M. (2012). E-waste. Queensland Parliamentary Library and Research Service, No. 06, 1-12. Yang, W. (2008). Regulating electrical and electronic wastes in China. Review of European Community & I nternational Environmental Law, 17(3), 337-346. Other Sources Daily chart: All the phones in China. (2012). [Graph illustration The Economist March 1, 2012]. The Economist. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/03/daily-chart Forecasted Scrapping Volume of Five Major Electronic Equipment Types. (2006). [Table China’s Plastics S tatistics Yearbook 2006]. China’s Plastics Yearbook. Sometimes Interesting. (2011, July 17). Electronic waste dump of the world: Guiyu, China. Retrieved from http://sometimes-interesting.com/2011/07/17/electronic-waste-dump-of-the-world/ The rude wasting of old time. (Spring 2011). Virginia Quarterly Review, 1-3.

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