E-waste

Are you aware of electronic waste?

Contents

- Introduction

- The team, e-waste definition

- E-waste background

- The quiz and its scoring system

- Respondents’ answers analysis

- Conclusion

The team

Daniel Santos Llamas: Computer Science

Miquel Angel Pereira Gega: Telecommunications

Oscar Pitton Denegri: Telecommunications

Zalika Binti Sazali Nur: Mechanics

Xavier Luna Marti: Computer Science

We have chosen this topic because all members of the group are related to electronic world and devices.

What is electronic waste?

- Discarded electrical or electronic devices.

- Used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling or disposal.

- Planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing production of e-waste.

What we know about e-waste?

- Few information

- Lack of green sites - Tend to buy new electronic devices

- Easy to buy, hard to repair

E-waste background

- E-waste is around the 5% of all solid waste worldwide.

- Only around 12.5% of e-waste is being recycled.

- The process of dismantling e-waste leads to several environmental hazards.

- Groundwater and river pollution and hydrocarbon emissions.

Are you aware of electronic waste?

- To check people’s awareness about e-waste, a quiz has been created.

- We reported 24 samples about respondents, most of them university students.

Quiz’s scoring system

- The respondent has a feedback depending on the answers provided

Below [17 ]

- Congratulations! You are taking seriously this topic! You are very aware and conscious on how E-waste should be treated and processed. Keep on it!

Between [ 18 and 24 ]

- You are keeping a good pace about the use and awareness of E-waste but you can go further to protect, even more, the environment!

Above [ 25 ]

- You have no care about environmentalism! E-waste is very polluting to our environment and it shouldn’t be ignored so start recycling and taking a more active role on this topic.

Conclusion

- When their devices are broken, people tend to buy a new one, but they prefer to keep with them the old ones.

- In general terms, they are aware about the e-waste, but they don’t participate in an active manner.

- Governments and institutions should promote e-waste concerns and long-term risks.