Green Computing Saves Green

         The good news is, by embracing simple, everyday green computing practices, you can improve energy management, increase energy efficiency, reduce e-waste, and save money in the process!

        As computers play an ever-larger role in our lives, energy demands, costs, and waste are escalating dramatically. Consider the following from the Climate Savers Computing Initiative:

• In a typical desktop computer, nearly half the power coming out of the wall is wasted and never reaches the processor, memory, disks, or other components.
• The added heat from inefficient computers can increase the demand on air
  conditioners and cooling systems, making your computing equipment even more
  expensive to run.
• Even though most of today’s desktop computers are capable of automatically
  transitioning to a sleep or hibernate state when inactive, about 90 percent of systems
  have this function disabled.
• Some 25 percent of the electricity used to power home electronics—computers, DVD
  players, stereos, TVs—is consumed while the products are turned off.
  

E waste

Electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) describes loosely discarded, surplus, obsolete, broken, electrical or electronic devices. The processing of electronic waste in developing countries causes serious health and pollution problems because electronic equipment contains some very serious contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominated flame retardants. Even in developed countries recycling and disposal of e-waste involves significant risk to workers and communities and great care must be taken to avoid unsafe exposure in recycling operations and leaching of material such as heavy metals from landfills and incinerator ashes.

Ewaste: Dumping ground

         It gets worse. “There are two major sources of e-waste: domestic markets, and illegal waste dumping from countries such as the US, European Union and south east Asia,” . Although India is a signatory of the Basel convention that bans the movement of hazardous waste from developed to  developing nations, that hasn’t stopped a flood of old monitors, motherboards and MP3 players from being dumped in India. Even just the domestically produced e-waste is becoming a major problem., “A new report by the GTZ (an enterprise owned by the German government that specializes in technical cooperation for sustainable development), says that India produces 3.3 lakh tons of ewaste in a year. According to earlier data, we produce 800 tons of e-waste a day.”

Ewaste : a heaping problem

            Like all daily use objects, when a device is replaced, it makes its way into the dustbin, unfortunately, unlike other waste, this kind leaves behind a trail of problems and complications. Welcome to the world of e-waste.
              “All electrical and electronic products that complete their useful life and can’t be used for any purpose are e-waste,” associate director of Toxics Link, an organization that has been tracing this waste for a number of years. “The problem is that e-waste has a huge amount of highly toxic constituents, and needs to be handled with a lot of care during disposal. Failure to do so creates a number of environmental and human health issues,” he adds. It’s not difficult to see why. Every computer, computing device, cell phone, or PDA contains a printed circuit board, the area where the microprocessor and all the circuits, capacitors, resistors and sensors that make it work, are placed. These components and the solder required to keep them connected, contain a plethora of human poisons. Lead, a neurotoxin, is used in the solder and CRTs; cadmium that kills the kidneys, is used in chips; mercury a metal that disrupts the brain is part of LCDs and switches; brominated flame retardant plastics that forms most of the computers body, damage the DNA.
The list goes on. Unfortunately, as Moore’s law produces faster devices every 18 months, the pile of discarded devices keeps growing, and we keep adding to the pool of mentioned substances.

Where computers go to die

By 2012 India will be producing approximately 8,800 tons of e-waste every day. Here’s the scary truth about what happens to your computer after you dispose of it.

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