GEOG 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cathode Ray Tube, Municipal Solid Waste, Electronic Waste

• School: UBC
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 410
• Professor: K A R E N A B K K E R

Document Summary

Chapter 17 takes electronic waste, or e-waste, as its object of concern. E-waste is thus viewed in this chapter from the risk and hazards (chapter 6), markets and commodities (chapter 3), and political. Agbogbloshie is an informal settlement near accra, ghana that has become a dumping ground where millions of tons of electronic waste (e-waste) are processed each year. Initially, these products came fro(cid:373) atte(cid:373)pts to (cid:271)ridge the (cid:862)digital di(cid:448)ide(cid:863) a(cid:374)d pro(cid:448)ide fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:373)puters for gha(cid:374)aia(cid:374)s, but developed countries snuck in increasing numbers of non-functional computers to avoid dumping penalties. A short history of e-waste: e-waste is made up of machines discarded at their end of life (eol). A world of tv viewers: home ownership of televisions in the u. s. and europe rose rapidly after world war ii. They are increasingly common in developing countries as they become more affordable: the first tvs were made with cathode ray tube (crt) monitors, which contained high levels of lead.