One Billion Cellphones Can Spread Toxic On Earth
The mobile technology is growing really fast and new models of cellphones are coming out continuously. This trend makes people change their cellphone more rapidly, which brings an inevitable negative effects. Around one billion used cellphones in United States are potentially poisoned mother earth. This shocking data was published by CollectiveGood, a cellphone recycling company in USA.
People in USA have an average of 3.5 unused used-phones. Users of mobile phone in US, which are around 257 million contribute 155 million used phones that ready to be thrown to trash bin every year. According to CollectiveGood, this trend makes around one billion used phones potentially piling up the earth.
This amount is really amazing thus if we do not put it into account, it can poison soil component, water and air in century time. It happens because when we throw away the phones, its poisoning material such as mercury or arsenic is released to environment. To handle this problem, CollectiveGood is making sure that used phones have to be dealt carefully to minimize their effect to the environment.
June 29th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I’m not a believer in half of the environmental propaganda that circulates the media; I don’t believe that man is contributing to global warming. However, I think you raise a very important point about the mobile phone market. Companies are constantly bringing out new models, which encourages people - especially kids - to change their handset every 2-3 months. It is beyond a joke and something needs to be done.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
thank you for the post…an eye opener for everyone..makes us think twice..well cellphones are handy and useful, convenient..choosing whether to compromise mother natures health and of course eventually also our own health or continue with our destructive ways, maybe very easy for most people to decide on for most will probably not take it seriously and just disregard things…but more and more people do actually consider all these things..if not all then most of it…people are starting to get aware and concerned about their health and the environment they live in…hopefully more people will get to read this.