You know I never really though about e-waste until we talked about it class. I knew trash was a problem but never specifically thought about electronic waste.
My dad doesn't know anything significant about computers but he and I had always had a love for going to goodwill and buying all the old stuff they had. That's part of how I got hooked on roller coaster tycoon. Be bought so much but never really got rid of any of it. My parents are total pack rats and almost all the computer equipment we have that we don't use is sitting under more computer equipment in the garage. I know one day they are going to move out and since the discussion in class it's dawned on me that I need to get rid of it in the right way. May my generation will get better at this kind of personal responsibility. At least I hope we do. See those pictures is sad and thinking about were this laptop, that I'm poking at right now, will be in 20 years is on the top of my mind. Hopefully it won't be there.
This got me think about other waste. So many people know that they have ways to recycle and why, but still don't care enough to do so. Large encyclopedia set always come to mind when I think about those things.
Maybe it is coming full circle. Each year the government and tax payers save the time money and most importantly trees by e-filing their tax return but in the end many of the computers that they file on turn up in toxic land fills anyway.
Computers have done a lot for the government. Government depository libraries are starting to print less documents and have more available, in different formats, on-line. Although librarians don't like to have less print material, the majority of Americans are fine with using the Internet in government depository libraries and at home on their own couch, something they couldn't have done 15 years ago.
E-waste isn't going to go away but maybe more can be done to open eyes about the problem of it as mine were opened for me.
My dad doesn't know anything significant about computers but he and I had always had a love for going to goodwill and buying all the old stuff they had. That's part of how I got hooked on roller coaster tycoon. Be bought so much but never really got rid of any of it. My parents are total pack rats and almost all the computer equipment we have that we don't use is sitting under more computer equipment in the garage. I know one day they are going to move out and since the discussion in class it's dawned on me that I need to get rid of it in the right way. May my generation will get better at this kind of personal responsibility. At least I hope we do. See those pictures is sad and thinking about were this laptop, that I'm poking at right now, will be in 20 years is on the top of my mind. Hopefully it won't be there.
This got me think about other waste. So many people know that they have ways to recycle and why, but still don't care enough to do so. Large encyclopedia set always come to mind when I think about those things.
Maybe it is coming full circle. Each year the government and tax payers save the time money and most importantly trees by e-filing their tax return but in the end many of the computers that they file on turn up in toxic land fills anyway.
Computers have done a lot for the government. Government depository libraries are starting to print less documents and have more available, in different formats, on-line. Although librarians don't like to have less print material, the majority of Americans are fine with using the Internet in government depository libraries and at home on their own couch, something they couldn't have done 15 years ago.
E-waste isn't going to go away but maybe more can be done to open eyes about the problem of it as mine were opened for me.
