The document discusses the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste) around the world. It talks about the environmental and health risks posed by e-waste, as well as efforts in Central America to address the issue. Specifically, the Central American Association for the Economy, Health and Environment has initiated projects in countries like El Salvador to raise awareness and develop national strategies for managing e-waste. The experience in Costa Rica is being used as a model, with the goal of replicating their two-phase approach to diagnosis and strategy development in El Salvador.
The document discusses the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste) around the world. It talks about the environmental and health risks posed by e-waste, as well as efforts in Central America to address the issue. Specifically, the Central American Association for the Economy, Health and Environment has initiated projects in countries like El Salvador to raise awareness and develop national strategies for managing e-waste. The experience in Costa Rica is being used as a model, with the goal of replicating their two-phase approach to diagnosis and strategy development in El Salvador.
The document discusses the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste) around the world. It talks about the environmental and health risks posed by e-waste, as well as efforts in Central America to address the issue. Specifically, the Central American Association for the Economy, Health and Environment has initiated projects in countries like El Salvador to raise awareness and develop national strategies for managing e-waste. The experience in Costa Rica is being used as a model, with the goal of replicating their two-phase approach to diagnosis and strategy development in El Salvador.
NAME: Dominguez Salazar juan Ricardo , Jose Hernandez
Elvin DEGREE AND GROUP. 4J NOME OF SCHOOL. CBTIS 269 WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND DISUSED ELECTRONICS, FROM HOUSEHOLD
APPLIANCES TO EQUIPMENT COMPUTERS, CONSTITUTE A NEW TYPE OF WASTE WASTE THANT IS CALLED WASTE ELECTRONOCS. SINCE SOME CONSTANTLY ADVANCING PROBLEMS ARE. 1. GARBAGE LEVELS GROWTH 2. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 3. USE AND ABUSE OF HEAVY METALS AND POLLUTANTS 4. TOXICITY AND HEALTH PROBLEMS 5. WASTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, PRECIOUS METALS 6. WARS, MASSACRES, SLAVERY 7. CARTONEROS, JUNK COLLECTORS, INFORMAL SECTOR, CHILDREN ,WOMEN THE CENTRAL AMERICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ECONOMY , HEALTH ANS THE ENVIRONMENT.BASED IN COSTA RICA, HAS INITIATEDAN EFFORT IN SONE CENTRAL AMERICAN CONTRIES,INCLUDING EL SALVADIR,WITH THEPURPOSE OF MOTIVATING JOINT ACTIONS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM.ENVIRONMENTAL GENERATED BY ELECTRONIC WASTE. THIS EFFORT HAS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION FROM THE COLLABORATIVE WORKING GROUP ON THE MANAGEMENT OF WASTE IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES CWG MANAGED THROUGH ACEPESA COSTA RISA AND EXECUTED IN EL SALVADOR BY A SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST.
THE EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED IN COSTA RICA ON YHE MANAGENT OF
ELECTONIC WASTE HAS WANTED TO BE REPLICARED IN EL SALVADOR USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY APPLIED IN THAT COUNTRY, WHICH IS DIVIDED INT TWO PHASES. THE FIRT IS THE PREPATION OF A DIAGNOSIS AND THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE, MADE UO OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, IN WHICH DISCUSSIONS,ANALYZES AND PROPOSALS ARE GENERATED, WHICH CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO THE SCOND PHASE,WHICHIS THE DESIGD AND IMPEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL STATEGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE.
TYPES OF ELECTRONIC WASTE
1. REFRIGERATORS,FREEZERS AND OTHER REFRIGERATING EQUIPMENT.
2 COMPUTER AND TELEMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. 3 CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS. 4 TELEVISIONS, MONITORS AND SCREENS. 5 LED LAMPS. AT SOME E-WASTE SITES, THE ENVIROMENTAL AMOUNT AND HEALTH RISKS POSED BY INCREASING E-WASTE AROUND THE WORLD ARE ESPECIALLY URGENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AS SOME RECEIVE THE WASTE FROM DEVELOPED NATIONS. WASTE ACCUMULATES THROUGHOUT THE PLANET AT A RETE OF 40, 50 MILLION TONS PER YEAR.THE DIGGEST GROWTH IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN IN MOBILE PHONES AND SIMILAR DEVICES. THE UNITER NATIONS UN URGED URGENT ACTION TO BE TAKES AGAINST THE SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH CAUSE BY THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF ELECTRONIC WASTE. MILLIONS OF TONS OF ELECTRONIC WASTE ARE GENETED WORLDWIDE. BETWEEEN 50, AND 80 OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL WASTE ENDS UP IN LANDFILLS IN CHINA OR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SUCHAS INDIA, PAKISTAN AND NIGERIA. our conclusions:
Electronic waste represents an environmental risk for society, but also an
economic opportunity for whoever makes its correct management and proper disposal, a formal activity that reincorporates its valuables into productive market chains. That is why the laws and regulations in this regard serve as mechanisms that trigger sustainable economies.
The proper handling and proper management of electronic waste in Mexico
requires a National Agenda that promotes the active and transversal participation of 4 different Federal Government secretariats, to truly lay the foundations that promote and detonate in an integral way, that the Recycling of Waste Electronics results in a new Formal Economic Sector that generates jobs and value for the country.
Gasification of Waste Materials: Technologies for Generating Energy, Gas, and Chemicals from Municipal Solid Waste, Biomass, Nonrecycled Plastics, Sludges, and Wet Solid Wastes