Where Your Cellphone Goes to Die

  Upfront Magazine Response                                                                                       Skyla Lowe 707
  
    I think it is not acceptable for electronic manufacturers to pay developing countries to take the U.S.'s e-waste because most Americans replace their electronic devices like cellphones on an average of 22 months and in 2010 the dump trucks junked over 150 million devices alone which is a lot. Also in other places they burn and trade these electronics for copper wires, gold, and silver threads which they then sell to merchants for a couple of dollars. This goes to show that the e-waste we have then goes to other places and we don't actually get a good outcome we just get less electronics to take apart or junk.
     I think it would take the U.S. Cellphone manufacturers a lot of thinking to do better things with the electronics people don't want no more by taking them apart and reusing them for more useful things like another phone, school supplies and other useful/helpful materials.When we throw away used phones only 37% is recycled and when we throw away TVs only 17% is recycled when we throw away/ give up wireless devices only 9% is actually recycled, all the other percentages of each item is trashed which pollutes the areas we live in and we breathe in bad air and these things affect us each and everyday because more than at least 1,000 people a day throw away devices or electronics and it just gets shipped which does not help us. Lastly they can also begin making phones out of products that can be recycled because some phones may not be recyclable, because I know it's kind of hard to disassemble a phone but there is technology these days!