eWaste and the Basil Convention
 
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Read the article High Tech Trash from National Geographic. Each question corresponds to the page the answer is on.
- How does "Moore's Law" correlate to the problem of e-waste?
- What are the figures for numbers of discarded:
- TVs
- Cell phones (US)
- Tons of tech trash
- What is the result of the US policy of Federal hands-off policy?
- While China may be curtailing imports of old electronics, what then happens?
- What would it take for the machine "David" to be profitable?
- Play with the interactive computer. (Click the "View Interactive" link in the bottom right after reading the short article). Based on what you are looking at which part of the computer do you find to be the most dangerous and why?
- Lastly, take the e-waste quiz and report you score to the forum.
Post to forum and respond to 6 and 7 on someone elses |