Hard Drive Degausser Data stored on hard drives, magnetic tape, and other magnetic storage devices is technically called magnetic media. Documents, videos, and other media types create uniformly magnetized regions (magnetic domains) within magnetic materials that...
What does it take to make an iPhone? iPhones are taken for granted by consumers who rely on their cellphones for virtually everything from purchasing items to running a business to ordering their next meal. However, most don’t know what materials are used to...
What is the Basel Convention on E-waste? In August of 1986, a Liberian cargo ship named the Khian Sea embarked from an East Coast port carrying nearly 15,000 tons of ash taken from Philadelphia waste incinerators. Previously, Philadelphia had sent ash waste to New...
E-Waste and Climate Change Knowledge of greenhouse gases and their ability to artificially heat the earth emerged in the late 1800s. Experiments performed by forward-thinking scientists suggested that factory-produced CO2 could possibly form a type of insulating...
Global Electronic Waste Management The ewaste international dumping disaster began several decades ago when an international treaty called the Basel Convention was enacted by many European Union and NATO countries in 1989. The purpose of this treaty involved...
Nearly 30 states now have some kind of statewide electronic waste recycling program to make it easier for businesses and individual consumers to safely dispose of electronic devices. Most materials used to make today’s electronics can be recycled using a variety...
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