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MY POISONED PC


source: guardian.co.uk/uk_news/
story/0,3604,1309066,00.html

www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/
2002report.htm

L. Michaelis, S. Lorek, ‘Consumption and the Environment in Europe. Trends and Futures’, Environmental Project No. 904, 2004.

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poisoned PC

Together with cameras, cellular phones, notebook computers, TVs and many other small electronic devices, computers…

  • produce around 5.5-7 million tons/year of electronic equipment waste, with a growing rate of 3-5%.


  • Computers and their components - semiconductor chips, circuit boards, and disk drives - are made from more than 1,000 materials. Many of these are extremely toxic.
What's in a typical desktop computer*?
 kg
Silica6.8
Plastics6.26
Iron5.58
Aluminium3.86
Lead1.72
Copper1.91
Tin0.27
Nickel0.23
Zinc0.6


Also present are trace amounts of manganese, arsenic, mercury, titanium, cobalt, chromium, cadmium, and other toxic elements.


* Weighting on average 27kg/60lb.
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