Think About The Earth

Think Green Tech (1 of 2) September 4, 2009

How often do you break and change a cell phone?  If you say every year, then you’re not helping the environment—you’re actually not being eco-friendly and you’re a big contributor to global warming.

Yes, your broken cell phone, if it cannot be fixed anymore, is destined to the landfill where it will create an environmental nightmare—cell phones contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to the environment and to all living creatures on earth (for more information on this, you can read Greenpeace’s report, “Toxic Tec: Not in Our Backyard” at www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/not-in-our-backyard.

Here are the harmful effects of chemicals from wireless technology:

●  Lead:  damages both the central and peripheral nervous systems; high blood pressure, damage to the kidneys and liver; adversely affects child development

●  Beryllium:  carcinogenic, especially for the lungs, upon long-term exposure.  Extreme exposure can lead to a potentially fatal condition known as acute beryllium disease.

●  Arsenic:  causes severe damage to the digestive tract

●  Mercury:  attacks the central nervous and endocrine systems; harmful to mouth, teeth and gums; poses risk in the neurological development of unborn fetuses

●  Antimony:  toxic to humans in ways similar to arsenic; fatal in large doses

●  Cadmium:  potentially carcinogenic repeated exposure can damage the lungs, kidney, and liver.

you might have not noticed this yet, but the populations of honeybee around the world is shrinking, and we have cell to British studies. This phenomenon is called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), where worker bees desert the hive, leaving only the queen and eggs.

That’s bad news.  Less bees means shortage in food supply.  Why?

Did you know that cell phones can kill gorillas?  Here’s the story:  cell phones have tantalum electrolytic capacitors, which store the minute amount of electricity needed for cell pone circuit board operation.  These capacitors have a coating component called coltan (short for Columbite-Tantalite), a metallic ore containing niobium and tantalum, which is found mainly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.