In today’s world, we are constantly creating new technology in the hopes of progress. However, with each new innovation in technology, people throw their old electronics into landfills, not realizing the social and environmental impact this has on the world. To stop this, we at Recharged are encouraging people to recycle their old technology, which not only helps the environment but also helps people in need by giving them electronics and letting them make use of devices that would have otherwise gone to waste.

Environmental Benefits of Recycling Technology

By recycling technology, it helps the environment in many ways. It allows electronic waste (also known as e-waste) to stay out of landfills, which not only saves space in them but also helps plants and animals near them. There are many harmful metals like lead in our devices. When thrown in a landfill, these metals slowly deteriorate into toxins, which are released into the soil and can kill plants as well as other organisms living there. Along with damaging ecosystems, though, e-waste can pollute our water and air, causing respiratory illnesses, cancer, and a worse environment for everyone.

However, recycling technology offers a solution to this problem. By recycling e-waste, these precious metals are no longer harming the environment. Instead, they are reused, which keeps electronics out of incinerators and lets the parts be recycled into new devices.

Social Benefits of Recycling Technology

Even though recycling technology has many economic benefits, there are social benefits too. At Recharged, we donate to people in both India and America, and we help them get technology that they wouldn’t otherwise have been able to obtain. As well as that, recycling centers create tons of jobs that boost the economy. They prevent precious metals like lithium from going to waste, and since recycled materials are cheaper than fresh ones, recycling also allows manufacturers to produce devices for cheaper, which in turn leads to cheaper prices for consumers.

Consequences of Not Recycling Technology

There are many consequences to not recycling technology. Along with the fact that e-waste in landfills leads to harm for many organisms and the environment, not recycling e-waste means that more metals are wasted, which leads to more mining and more harm for the environment, as well as an increase in prices for those metals as the finite supply of them gets lower and lower. For us, recycling technology is the future. If we want to help the environment, help the economy, and help our society, we need to stop putting our phones into landfills and start putting them into the hands of people that need them.