High tech trash
ENG 108
September 6, 2011
High Tech Trash
1. The problems are more and more discard electrical products end up in a ditch in Ghana. Both people and the environment get damage from the e-waste. People trying to recycle the valuable metal and sent the rest to landfill. And still people did not disposal it in a wrong way. 2. Because of the variety of electrical products, people discard the old ones from generation to generation. Nowadays, more and more e-waste need to disposal by recycles. Different from past, computers usually get obsolescence. The wrong e-waste disposal is harmful to both human health and the environment.
3. Even thought people take all obsolete electronics to the local Goodwill store, or a recycling company, it does not mean it is correctly recycled. Also for those stores, they did not doing the thing nicely. At last, Chris found out that a maintenance man can purchase machines from Internet at very low price.
4. How we recycle is important to us, because it may have the impact to both people and the environment. The leak lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and other toxics would cause the air pollution; in addition these elements will directly go into people’s body and cause people to illness and death.
5. In the United State, over 70% of computer and monitors, and more that 80% of TVs are usually being trashed. It results in leak lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and other toxics. But in the European Union, the recycling system is more developed. A plant-size recycling machines can make recycle easier, but there are only there American companies have these equipments.
Xiaohang Ma
Bergquist
ENG 108
September 8, 2011
1. Paraphrase
Gordon Moore had been discovered that during each two years the power of the computer will be double when it is processing. But according to the “Moore Law”, the entire machines nearly abandon, even though they are using the most advanced technology. (
September 6, 2011
High Tech Trash
1. The problems are more and more discard electrical products end up in a ditch in Ghana. Both people and the environment get damage from the e-waste. People trying to recycle the valuable metal and sent the rest to landfill. And still people did not disposal it in a wrong way. 2. Because of the variety of electrical products, people discard the old ones from generation to generation. Nowadays, more and more e-waste need to disposal by recycles. Different from past, computers usually get obsolescence. The wrong e-waste disposal is harmful to both human health and the environment.
3. Even thought people take all obsolete electronics to the local Goodwill store, or a recycling company, it does not mean it is correctly recycled. Also for those stores, they did not doing the thing nicely. At last, Chris found out that a maintenance man can purchase machines from Internet at very low price.
4. How we recycle is important to us, because it may have the impact to both people and the environment. The leak lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and other toxics would cause the air pollution; in addition these elements will directly go into people’s body and cause people to illness and death.
5. In the United State, over 70% of computer and monitors, and more that 80% of TVs are usually being trashed. It results in leak lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and other toxics. But in the European Union, the recycling system is more developed. A plant-size recycling machines can make recycle easier, but there are only there American companies have these equipments.
Xiaohang Ma
Bergquist
ENG 108
September 8, 2011
1. Paraphrase
Gordon Moore had been discovered that during each two years the power of the computer will be double when it is processing. But according to the “Moore Law”, the entire machines nearly abandon, even though they are using the most advanced technology. (