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E-Waste Management
#passthemic + Podcast #8 with Founder of JEWA and expert Guest Ify Otuya From Nigeria 🇳🇬
Let’s dive in or — talk about the importance of reducing E-Waste!
Over the years, electronic waste has increased massively and all of us have contributed in some way or another. We make a lot of e-waste. When electronics end up in landfills, toxins like lead, mercury, and cadmium leach into the soil and water.
The electronic waste problem is huge: More than 48 million tons of e-waste are produced every year. If you put every blue whale alive today on one side of a scale and one year of US e-waste (6.9 million tons) on the other, the e-waste would be heavier.
We all individually and collectively generate a lot of waste, as capitalism is not sustainable because one of its main drives and sources are massive consumerism, violence, and greed. There are very important aspects to consider during this era thanks (not!) capitalist, patriarchy, and white supremacy old system: E-waste is the Toxic Legacy of our Digital Age now. This will only get worse if we are not re-thinking our consumption habits during a climate crisis through a world pandemic.
