There is more to E-Waste disposal than just throwing it in the trash

 You wouldn't know who you were if you tossed those old cell phones that you have been keeping in a drawer in your kitchen for the past ten years into your kitchen garbage.

Most likely not.

If every owner of a cell phone had to throw out one old, four-year-old phone, it would result in approximately 275,000,000 devices ending up in our junk removal tampa  waste stream.

If we did this each year, year after year there would be more than a billion phones ending up in our landfills every three or four years.

Although cell phones are generally disposable, many can be reused for years. Older phones can become obsolete if they stop working. To meet consumer demand, new phones need to be made constantly.

It's been estimated there will be more than 310 million smartphone owners in the United States by 2025. Keep in mind that people may own multiple phones.

Some electronic devices, like smartphones, can be particularly harmful to the environment.

An article from years ago stated that:

Smartphones are especially dangerous for several reasons. They are more or less disposable with a two year average life span. Problem is, building a new phone and mining the rare materials within it can result in 85% to 95% of its total CO2 emissions over the two-year period. This means that buying a new smartphone takes the same amount of energy as charging and operating a smartphone for ten years.

It is clear that house cleanouts , and other ewaste items are a major part of the solution. The goal is to extract or recover as many high-value components from them as possible.

E-Waste also refers to big stuff, not just phones

Electronic waste (or e-waste) is made up of an incredible range of industrial and consumer products.

One source describes it in this way.

E-waste is anything that has plugs, cables and electronic components. Common sources of electronic waste include televisions, computers and mobile phones. They also include any type of appliance at home, including air conditioners and children's toys. "

One UC Santa Cruz website mentions that is available.

"Examples include but are not limited to TVs and computer monitors. Printers, scanners. keyboards. mice. cables. circuit boards. lamps. flashlights. calculators. answering machines. digital/video cameras. radios. VCRs. DVD players. MP3 and CD players. "

In 2022, e-waste will be even more diverse, with so many electronics having "smart" parts that enable them to participate in the IoT (Internet of Things).

Simply put, this is the increasing trend to produce and buy so-called smart products.

And, according to Oracle, The junk hauling tampa describes the network of physical objects--"things"--that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.

These smart devices can contain more hazardous materials than they are safe for e-waste disposal. These toxic components can leach into groundwater near landfills and cause environmental havoc.

This is why proper e waste disposal is crucial for both homes and businesses.

However, properly disposing off the different types of electronic waste we have can be complicated and require a lot of driving and research.

Junk King is a specialist in e-waste disposal, disposal and recycling