Amount of Collected E-Waste
Pieces
Total CO² Reduction
Kilogram Carbon Equivalent
Amount of Collected E-Waste
Pieces
Total CO² Reduction
Kilogram Carbon Equivalent
Little did we know, keeping one too many Electronic Wastes may cause a significant global issue. If with ignorance, one small action will gradually impact humankind like a Butterfly Effect, and not in a good way.
This mountain of trash is surely not a pretty sight, and what’s more shameful is that there isn’t just one but way too many piling up at every corner of the Earth. What’s so bad? Not only such wastes are non-biodegradable, these Electronic Wastes are damaging the ecosystem to no end. To top that off, these mountains were made by our very own hands.
When talk about ‘obsession’, most of people are probably ‘being obsessed with new stuffs’. Only a few would think of ‘being obsessed with old stuffs’. But AIS is waiting to get obsessed with old e-waste from you and all Thai people.
On June 5th “AIS E-Waste, we are going to be obsessed with your old stuffs. ” During the past few months, many people who have to work from home may feel like getting a new gadget is a must, to enhance the quality of work. Whether a new cellphone, earphones, or a new tablet, no doubt that we would feel obsessed with our new devices and loved to try it out. What about our old stuffs? We might have forgotten them in the corner of our house. Those forgotten gadgets may leads to various health issues later on. Some of the stuffs that you may need it for later or the old power banks, the stuffs that you do not know how to dispose of. These old gadgets are called E-Waste or Electronic Waste. When they are disposed or recycled properly, it can reduce the carbon dioxide gas equivalent to planting a new tree or 12.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide reduction* per year or equivalent planting a new tree. (*According to Chula Loves the Earth project) June 5th is the World Environment day, if you like to make our environment, our community,and our planet to be a better place, you
Landfill Management may cause toxic leakage and residue in both surface water and groundwater. Incineration waste management may affect air quality and also the ecosystem both in the short and long term but if the wastes can be separated for recycling such as copper, silver and palladium, it can increase the value of recycle waste.
“Where does this phone have to be discarded?” It is a sad fact that this question still exists for many people in the modern world. And it’s even more sad, most Thai people don’t even ask this question. It is not because they know where to discard it away, but because they don’t even care about who will handle this phone after it became garbage.