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The E-Waste Busters are a Team of students that seek a change in today's world. The amount of electronic waste we have wasted in the last generation is absurd. E-waste can be easily prevented if we recycle the resources we already have. 540 pounds of metal is wasted yearly and if that is recycled then we won't have to further damage the earth by mining for it. If we all start recycling our cellphones, laptops, Televisions, gaming concerns then we can start a movement to a brighter future.
Recent News"High above the Pacific Ocean in a plane headed for Hong Kong, most of the passengers are fast asleep.
But not Jim Puckett. His eyes are fixed on the glowing screen of his laptop. Little orange markers dot a satellite image. He squints at the pixelated terrain trying to make out telltale signs. He’s searching for America’s electronic waste. “People have the right to know where their stuff goes,” he says. Dead electronics make up the world’s fastest-growing source of waste. The United States produces more e-waste than any country in the world. Electronics contain toxic materials like lead and mercury, which can harm the environment and people. Americans send about 50,000 dump trucks worth of electronics to recyclers each year." -PBS |
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