- When trying to sell lots of stuff 'designed for the dump' makes sense
- 'Designed for the dump'-Making stuff to be thrown away quickly
- Today's electronics are hard to upgrade, easy to break, and impractical to repair
- Moore's Law- Gordon Moore said that electronics designers could double processor speed every 18 months
- They thought that every 18 months, we have to throw away our electronics and buy more
- Many of our gadgets are made from thousands of materials shipped from around the world
- Workers make the products with toxic chemicals like PVC and flame retardants
- IBM studies show that workers making computer chips had 40% more miscarriages
- Toxics in, Toxics out- All electronics are waiting to release toxic chemicals when we throw them away
- Old televisions have about 5 pounds of lead in them
- E-waste goes to landfills or is shipped across the world for someone else to recycle it
- Thrown out electronics are poisoning families in other countries taking apart these electronics
- Each year we make 25 million tons of e-waste
- Get dumped, burned or recycled
- Problems of electronics are created by the companies ignore environmental costs
- Instead of paying to make facilities safe, workers are with their health
- Instead of paying to redesign using fewer toxics, villagers pay losing their clean drinking water
- Making companies deal with e-waste is called extended producer responsibility or product take back
- This would cause companies to create electronics that are longer lasting, less toxic and more recyclable
- Many cities and states in US are passing similar laws
- These laws need to be protected and strengthened
- Don't export the 'recycling'. Choose greener products. Choices in store are limited to choices by designers and policy makers. Companies should be creating electronics that are designed to las