Electronic waste - 300 tons of gold land on the garbage // Elektroschrott - 300 Tonnen Gold landen auf dem Müll
Good evening dear Steemians!
Today I want to dedicate myself to a very interesting topic! And the electronic waste. What happens to him?
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The fact is, the world's produced mountain of electronic waste is growing and growing. This year we will reach a new record of more than 50 million tons. About 60 percent of the scrap is made up of large household appliances such as refrigerators or washing machines. Printers, laptops and cell phones only account for 7 percent.
Austria and Germany in the front seats
The countries that present themselves as particularly environmentally aware are in fact the biggest polluters. The list is headed by Norway. This is followed by Switzerland, Iceland and Great Britain. Also France, the USA and Austria occupy front seats. Most of the electronic waste is in the US and China, accounting for 32% of the total. The smallest amounts are produced in the Americas.
Only 16% will be recycled
Unfortunately, only about 16% of the electronic waste is recycled. 300 tonnes of gold were recovered in 2015, which corresponds to around 11% of the annual production of the precious metal. Electronic waste is a valuable mine, a great potential of recyclable materials.
Of course there are also dangerous substances in the electronic waste. 2 million tonnes of dangerous lead, as well as cadmium, mercury, chromium and 4,300 tonnes of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that endangers our ozone layer.
Global recycling solutions are missing
Unfortunately, systems of waste separation or avoidance exist only in a few countries. There is still a lot of catching up to do in these countries too. Only a fraction of the electronic waste is shipped to developing countries, where it is "processed" under questionable circumstances.
All in all, the electronic waste is still a worldwide problem!
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Guten Abend liebe Steemians!
Heute möchte ich mich einem sehr interessanten Thema widmen! Und zwar dem Elektroschrott. Was passiert mit ihm?
Ein Bild aus meinem Betrieb. Diese Menge fällt in einer Woche bei uns an.
Fakt ist, der weltweit produzierte Berg an Elektroschrott wächst und wächst. In diesem Jahr werden wir einen neuen Rekordwert von über 50 Millionen Tonnen erreichen. Ungefähr 60 Prozent des Schrotts machen große Haushaltsgeräte wie Kühlschränke oder Waschmaschinen aus. Drucker, Laptops und Handys haben nur einen Anteil von 7 Prozent.
Österreich und Deutschland auf den Vorderen Plätzen
Die Länder die sich als besonders Unweltbewusst darstellen, sind in Wirklichkeit die größsten Unweltsünder. Die Liste wird von Norwegen angeführt. Es folgen die Schweiz, Island und Großbritanien. Auch Frankreich, die USA und Österreich belgen vordere Plätze. Der meiste Elektromüll fällt inden USA und China an, die für 32% der Gesamten Menge verantwortlich sind. Die geringsten Mengen fallen in akfrikanischen Ländern an.
Nur 16% werden Recycelt
Leider werden nur ungefähr 16% des Elekktromülls recycelt. 300 Tonnen Gold wurden im Jahr 2015 so gewonnen, was rund 11% der Jahresproduktion des Edelmetalls entspricht. Elektroschrott stellt eine wertvolle Mine dar, ein großes Potential wiederverwertbarer Materialien.
Natürlich befinden sich auch gefährliche Stoffe im Elektroschrott. 2 Millionen Tonnen gefährliches Blei, sowie Kadmium, Quecksilber, Chrom und 4.300 Tonnen Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffe (FCKW) das unsere Ozonschicht gefährdet.
Es fehlen Globale Recycling-Lösungen
Leider gibt es Systeme von Mülltrennung oder -vermeidung nur in wenigen Ländern. Auch in diesen Ländern gibt es noch viel Aufholbedarf. Nur ein Bruchteil des Elektroschrotts wird in Entwicklungsländer geschifft, wo dieser unter fragwürdigen Umständen "aufbereitet" wird.
Alles in allem stellt der Elektroschrott immer noch ein Weltweites Problem dar!
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Wow das so wenig wiederverwertet wird dachte ich garnicht, gerade wenn man sich Websites von Schrottankaufern anschaut, was hier für Platinen, Gold, Kupfer und andere Rohstoffe bezahlt wird.
Das Problem dabei sind leider die gefährlichen Stoffe. Dieses Abfallprodukt aus dem Recycling von Elektroschrott muss natürlich auch herausgefiltert, gelagert und dann entsorgt werden. Was sehr teuer ist. Daher lohnt es sich nicht wirklich bzw. müsste viel investiert werden! Da ist die Zusammenarbeit International leider sehr schwach!
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Hey, this is actually an area of research of mine. This e-waste issue is a global problem. How we actually recycle part of the electronics is actually very concerning. Part of them are recycled properly, but more end up in 3rd world countries where people are exposed to some incredible toxins that leech into the soil, air, and bodies of people exploited in situations that are complex to explain. Polluted rivers in China, children suffering from Lukemia, lead poisoning, and lowered IQs due to the processes used to handle these wastes. We have made improvements, but this industry is an environmental disaster. Prison labor is commonly used and you can search reports of prisoners breaking older CRT monitors and facing exposure to lead because of it. It's absolutely sickening.
Oh, and it gets totally better because it's not just e-waste that is an environmental catastrophe within the computing industry - it's the entire industry overall. The water that it takes to create silicone chips could satiate a city, the pollutants that are released can be maddening.
The superfund sites riddled over Silicon Valley due to the older ways in which we produced computing is mind boggling.
I think if more people actually understood the incredibly grave impacts of the electronics and computing industry then they sure as hell would not throw out their phone the moment a new one comes out.
To act like we are isolated from one another in the way that we destroy our planet is fundamentally ignorant. Each pollutant, each act of destruction takes away our communal world. The computing industry is going to undergo an amazing transformation.
What I believe in could be our future of a biologically-infused computing future. I do not mean to come off weird / overly self promotion, but I am just passionate about this subject. Here is a post where I talk about the future of quantum biology infused computing future and an interview with Science Educator Philip Ball on the same topic:
A few years ago I read "High Tech Trash" by Elizabeth Grossman (link: https://islandpress.org/book/high-tech-trash) after being informed by my friends in Silicon Valley that they had to drink water from bottles and never from the tap due to the way the water was. They just didn't trust it. I was astounded, being from the Midwest, I had no idea that the coast faced those problems because of this industry. It's what made interested in this topic and has caused me to take it up as an area of research. This book specifically pointed out many of the issues that this industry faces and my study of the future of a quantum biology and quantum computing future is part of a solution (which we still have to take on classical computing production issues - but we will get there).
Also, we throw out billions of dollars of functional electronics when we do deliver this e-waste. If, instead, we taught people how to salvage the parts and create other objects - like you can create a 3D printer with mostly recycled parts. Then we could change this dangerous narrative and precedent that has been occurring for decades when it comes to e-waste management. We are slowly improving, but many people need to be much, much more aware of these issues.