As per the recent survey from the year 2007, millions of Americans do shop during Christmas holidays for new computers, TVs and iPhones. Many of these new gifts are a replacement or upgrade one's.
Now there is a questionas to where does the old one goes as new one do takes it's place? Exactly as the new devices and gadget's are bought then where do the old one's go? Do they get recycled? Do they get thrashed? Is it that they are dumped somewhere like garbagge?
yes they do!!!
As epr the recent survey, Americans throw out more than 350,655 cell phones and 130,893 computers, indulging electronic waste as to show that they are fastest growing stream.
There is a report about a sting investigation which says that recycling firms are transporting through ship and these ship consists of broken monitors with cathode-ray tubes as they have to buyers in other foreign countries without getting the required legal permission from the government as well as receiving nations.
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To start with the city of Guiyu town which is located within the southwest part of the coastal Shantou prefecture-level city, in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China . This place have home's upto 5,500 and there living is on the businesses devoted to processing of discarded and unrequired electronics, which we known as e-waste. According to local survey, the region handles 1.5 million pounds of damaged computers, cell phones and other electronic devices a year.
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