http://sitetodd.com sea bloggers INC Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:37:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sitetodd.com/2009/11/02/8000-tonnes-of-cellphone-waste-threating-earth/ http://sitetodd.com/2009/11/02/8000-tonnes-of-cellphone-waste-threating-earth/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:56:45 +0000 http://sitetodd.com/?p=329 Sporting a new mobile phone may be fashionable in these well-connected times, but the discarded old handsets could poison the environment, as a whopping 8,000 tonnes of cellphone waste is estimated to burden the earth by 2012.
As per a whitepaper by global consultancy Deloitte, there is a growing need to better manage the rising cellphone waste, as it is posing a threat to the environment.
Replacement sales predict that more cellphones would be retired every year with rapid changes in technology and product designs discouraging mobile repairs and increasing demand for new mobiles and disposal of old ones.
“With the absence of a proper recycle and reuse program, about 8,000 tonnes of toxic cellphone components are estimated to be dumped in landfills by 2012. The resulting contamination will have far reaching consequences for the environment and all living beings,

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