The poisons from your PC

You can feel healthy …. but you're sitting in front of a large toxic time bomb in the calculation.

Your computer contains many toxic chemicals in the soil, and accumulate in a location near you!

The manufacturers have stamped the toxins inside, but the disposal of computers outdated in recent years, and crushed in landfills, allowing the escape of dangerous substances into the surrounding land, air and water.

In the U.S., according to the Security Council, 60 million PCs and are buried in landfills and 138,000 computers become obsolete every day – and therefore ready to practice dumping – between 2004 and 2009.

In the United Kingdom, up to 2 million Pentium PCs are dumped each year.

In addition, a disaster may release large amounts of toxic materials. (An estimate of the 9 / 11 was that contained personal computers destroyed 200,000 pounds of lead!)

How escaped into the outside world? Judging by the reading place in the following weeks, a lot.

A computer is off the manufacturing environment. Used 10 times its weight in fossil fuels over a ton of purified water. pollutants (low) are also rejected in the streams and lakes in the air during each stage of manufacture.

However, fierce competition, higher repair costs and more, and the modernization of the leading manufacturers ordinary have made little effort to recycle, as the prices of PC profit margins – and therefore – have been kept low.

If these are poisons its average model? The main ones are:

LEAD

Consumer electronics is 40% lead continually dumped (until recently) in landfills and junkyards. An average computer uses 4 pounds of lead, 6.2% of the total weight of the PC.

The main uses of lead in electronic products welding consumables for printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other electronic components and glass panels in computer monitors (CRT) to protect against radiation. Usually, a monitor can contain 2-5 grams!

Lead is one of the few natural substances that are not essential for life. In the very same levels low, lead has been shown to cause health problems.

Lead can damage the central and peripheral nervous system, blood system and kidneys in humans. It accumulates in the environment and has serious detrimental effects on plants, animals and microorganisms. The problem with lead is that once land is taken, no is commercially acceptable to destroy or disable – you can try recycling, recyclable efficiency lead to a low of around 5%.

CADMIUM

The Cadmium occurs in certain electronic components such as resistors, infrared detectors, semiconductors, older cathode ray tubes, batteries and a plastic stabilizer. The Cadmium is extremely toxic metal, and can harm human health in an irreversible manner.
Cadmium and its compounds are concentrated in the body humans, especially in the kidneys.

Cadmium is absorbed mainly by inhalation – very dangerous (high levels can kill you), but also enters food, and you may easily accumulate in amounts that cause symptoms of poisoning.

Even as lead, cadmium accumulated by the dumping of old computers, and has become a danger to us all.

BARIUM

Barium is used in front of a CRT to protect users from radiation. barium can be released into the air, water and soil and accumulates in fish. Studies have shown that short-term exposure to barium (ingestion) resulted to brain swelling, muscle weakness and damage to the heart, liver and spleen.

MERCURY

22% of annual global consumption of mercury is used in electrical and electronic equipment. On the PC, is the mercury in the PLP, new batteries and LCD flat screen LCD, replacing the larger and more with their trunks (eg screens contain lead!)

Mercury is a powerful poison. Published research has shown that mercury, even in small quantities, is more toxic than lead, cadmium and arsenic, even! Although mercury is 0.0022% of the total weight of equipment is a major health hazard.

And we have not even touched on other hazardous substances and pollutants such as tin, arsenic, beryllium, hexavalent chromium, selenium, arsenic, manganese, silver. More stabilizers and additives.

polybrominated flame retardants used cables and circuits can damage the sexual development and growth, and accumulate in breast milk

If the hardware is "destroyed" by commercial incineration, hazardous metals and organic carcinogens such as dioxins can be released into the air.

Stricter laws put on the worldwide control over the disposal and recycling of computers, although this dumping computer waste from the West on developing countries has become a major scandal. We make healthy people sick Foreign dismantling of our PC.

The main objective behind the removal of laws in the PC world has been "Making the polluter pay", manufacturers are required to pay the direct costs.

(But do not be surprised to find his new team, while a shot costs $ 60 more!)

The European Union has opened the way for a series of guidelines sets strict limits on the content of a dangerous PCs sold in member countries, and how all the teams are eliminated – the vendors should initiate and organize recycling.

The United States thus far adopted a more piecemeal approach, while states as far away as California and Alaska are the implementation of controls severe on the dumping and disposal of electronic equipment.

What can you do?

• Check if you want to get rid local of their computers.

• Give your computer away to a registered charity or an organization that can use it. (Be sure that is working properly before trying!)

• Use a specialist of the company has to remove and recycle old computers, do not violate the law and pollute the environment!

• In the future, before buying a new PC, consider buying a recycled computer, or upgrade your old.

Also check out these sites …….

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) http://www.epa.gov/

In the United Kingdom, Council Industry Electronic Equipment Recycling (ICER) http://www.icer.org.uk/

Good luck, and a healthy lifestyle and Computer Science in 2006 and beyond!

About the Author

Mick Madigan lives in the UK and has a continual interest in healthy computing
He has published a fully detailed guide on how computing will harm you
-and how you can avoid it- at

http://www.m1mart.co.uk

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