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1. c) a gap between people who have internet access and

those who do not
2. a. exporting / technological waste
b. developing / recycle / China / India
c. deadly / poisonous

E-waste
For:
It is better to sell than to destroy
Economies improve
Jobs are created
Some technology can still be used
The materials recovered can be resold – everybody
wins
Against
The materials from e-waste are harmful for the environment and for
peoples’health
Poor countries should be encouraged to produced their own
technology
The selling of e-waste does nothing to solve the problema of the
digital divide
Poor countries will have a public health probllem as well as a digital
divide one