Major health and environment impacts as unwanted gadgets pile up
Published January 18, 2017 This content is archived.
An article in the Southeast Asia Globe about the major health and environmental impact of obsolete technology and other hazardous e-waste that are piling up in Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asia locations quotes Sara Behdad, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and an expert on e-waste.
Behdad said electronic products should be made easier to disassemble and built to be repaired, not thrown away. “[We should also be] changing the way people behave and promoting green behavior among consumers by offering new business models,” she added.
