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SCV Metals. Electronic Waste Recycling Program. Recycle your e-waste for a better future and a cleaner present. Video. Today’s technological advances . The Age Of Information

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  1. SCV Metals Electronic Waste Recycling Program Recycle your e-waste for a better future and a cleaner present

  2. Video

  3. Today’s technological advances • The Age Of Information • In recent years, advances in technology have brought new consumer electronic products, reshaping the way we live by improving our lifestyles in countless ways. • Creating more jobs by opening new markets all across the world. • The problem is that this new consumer gadgets have a very short life span and soon become obsolete or useless.

  4. What is E-waste? • E-Waste is any obsolete, broken and discarded electronic devices, including but not limited to: • Computers • Monitors • TV's • Fax Printers • Copy Machines • Laptops • Video Game Consoles • Cameras • Mobile Cell phones • DVD Players, VCR’s • Stereos • Etc…

  5. Urgent need for proper recycling of electronic waste • The dumping of e-waste without recycling causes serious environmental and health problems. • Only 20% of e-waste gets processed correctly. • Our landfills are getting polluted by electronic waste. • Landfill Facts; • According to the EPA the U.S generates more than 256 million tons of waste per year. • 80% of the total e-waste end up in landfills • That is more that 10 million tons! • E-waste constitutes 2% of total waste in landfills but is responsible for 70% of toxic contamination within the landfills.

  6. Environmental Impact • While volume for municipal waste continues to decrease year by year, in contrary e-waste has turn into the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the U.S • Toxics released at landfills make their way down to our ground water, polluting it.

  7. Health Risks • E-waste contains hazardous components that pose a serious threat to our health when expose. • Substances like lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium, halogenated chemicals and many organic polymers are all found in electronic devices; emitting radiation.

  8. E-Waste Exposure • Some of the several hazardous components that are found in e-waste include Lead, Mercury, cadmium, beryllium emitting radiation. • Lead exposure can cause serious defects in child development and the Nervous System in Adults and Children. • Mercury exposure affects the nervous with symptoms that include: tremors; emotional changes neuromuscular ,headaches; disturbances in sensations; changes in nerve responses; performance deficits on tests of cognitive function. At higher exposures there may be kidney effects, respiratory failure and death. • Beryllium is consider a carcinogen that affects the lungs. • The mixture of all components emit radiation • Radiation exposure can cause birth defects and could trigger cancer, the most strongly linked to radiation exposure in studies include: • Lung cancer • Skin Cancer • Thyroid Cancer • Multiple myeloma • Breast Cancer • Stomach Cancer

  9. What can you do? • Awareness in proper recycling practices is the key on overcoming the mishandling of e-waste. • A well-informed community has a positive impact in reshaping the way we recycle.

  10. That’s where we come in

  11. SCV Will Host Event • SCV Metals works with organization like YouthSpeak to bring a safer way to recycle you Electronic Waste. • SCV Metals will help you with; • Hosting the event by properly organizing the operation. • Will provide all logistics necessary to accommodate the process. • Advertising will be conducted by SCV Metals • At no Cost to your organization.

  12. Together We Can Make a Difference!

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