{"id":675495,"date":"2010-02-25T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.reallynatural.com,2010:\/\/2.2505"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:05:00","slug":"un-electronic-waste-to-increase-by-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675495","title":{"rendered":"UN:  Electronic Waste to Increase by 500%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a-chinese-child-sits-amongst-a.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reallynatural.com\/pictures\/a-chinese-child-sits-amongst-a.jpg?resize=430%2C287\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"287\" width=\"430\" \/><br \/>\nElectronic waste (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1597261904?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reallynatural-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1597261904\">e-waste<\/a>) is on the rise, as consumers discard older technology for the latest models.  Much of this <a href=\"http:\/\/ecoscraps.com\/2008\/09\/17\/gao-epa-fails-to-control-export-of-hazardous-e-waste-to-third-world\/\">e-waste ends up in Third World<\/a> countries.  No matter where it ends up, the United Nations (UN) predicts e-waste to increase by 500% in the next decade and &#8220;poses a serious threat to health and the environment.&#8221;  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/feb\/22\/electronic-waste\">Guardian<\/a> reports:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite a number of conventions aimed at preventing the indiscriminate dumping of e-waste, the problem is snowballing, with billions of people now regularly using advanced electronics.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is particularly acute in parts of west Africa, where ship-loads of e-waste are dumped on a daily basis and scavenged by children who break down the electronics to recover valuable metals that they can sell.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nImage:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/raw\/image_full\/international\/photosvideos\/photos\/a-chinese-child-sits-amongst-a.jpg\">Greenpeace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lsb5EhMRlbVM6p6rn2xOlHgfm8M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lsb5EhMRlbVM6p6rn2xOlHgfm8M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lsb5EhMRlbVM6p6rn2xOlHgfm8M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lsb5EhMRlbVM6p6rn2xOlHgfm8M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic waste (e-waste) is on the rise, as consumers discard older technology for the latest models. Much of this e-waste ends up in Third World countries. No matter where it ends up, the United Nations (UN) predicts e-waste to increase by 500% in the next decade and &#8220;poses a serious threat to health and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PJ5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}