Ayman Jabr 707 

Up-Front magazine: Where your Cell-Phone Goes To Die by: Leyla Acaroglu

Prompt: Is it acceptable for electronics manufacturers to pay developing countries to take the U.S’s  e-waste? What do you think it would take for U.S Cell-phone manufacturers to change their e-trash disposal practices? Support your response with facts from the text.

   This article “Where your Cell-Phone Goes To Die” by Leyla Acaroglu is about how the U.S is paying countries to take their electronic trash. In these countries such as Ghana, India, and China children are going through cell-phones and electronics digging in to tem so they can sell the parts for a little amount of cash.

    This article “Where your Cell-Phone Goes To Die” by Leyla Acaroglu is about how the U.S is paying counties to take their electronic trash. I personally don’t think that this is acceptable since people in countries like Ghana, China, and India are doing dangerous things trying to get cash from the metal in cell-phones. For example, it says “ In India, young boys smash computer batteries with mallets to recover cadmium, covering their hands and feet with toxic flecks. It also states “Women spend their days bent over vats of hot lead “cooking” circuit boards so they can remove silvers of gold inside”.  This is very dangerous and can exposure serious health risks and is certainly not acceptable. The U.S Cell-phone manufacturers have to change their e-trash disposal practices. They should stop sending their electronic trash to countries. They should try to inforce a law that they would have to recycle our electronic trash.

   This article “Where your Cell-Phone Goes To Die” by: Leyla Acaroglu made me think deeper about humanity because it told me what people would do just to get little cash. How young kids were smashing compute batteries just to get the cadmium. They were harming themselves getting covered with toxic flecks. This is very harmful and this makes me feel so bad about what is happening in their countries. They risk their health for a couple dollars. This is why this article “Where your Cell-Phone Goes To Die” by: Leyla Acaroglu made me think deeper about humanity.

YOUNG BOY GOING THROUGH E-WASTE