{"id":3981,"date":"2012-01-12T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:52:55","slug":"the-downside-of-the-electronic-waste-export-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/the-downside-of-the-electronic-waste-export-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of the Electronic Waste Export Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/green-recycle1.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2413\" title=\"green-recycle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/green-recycle1.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2413 lazyload\" title=\"green-recycle\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/green-recycle1.gif\"><\/a>Green campaigners have been happy about moves to speed up the banning of the exportation of electronic waste to developing countries.  However, is there a downside to the ban? Countries such as Egypt have a flourishing repair industry that is reliant on electronic waste and many people fear the ban will hinder the industry and lead to a rise in the price of electronics, further increasing the digital divide for those in developing nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The toxic nature of electronic waste has been well documented, with electronic circuit boards containing the likes of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, while computer plastics are coated with some of the most unpleasant chemicals around in the form of polybrominated flame-retardants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve definitely seen children mining waste for e-materials,\u201d says Kyle Wiens, who is currently producing a documentary entitled \u201cFixer\u201d about repairers in Asia and Africa.  \u201cIt\u2019s an area of concern and stricter enforcement of environmental laws is necessary.\u201d However, as Wiens goes on to point out, \u201cThe repair industry isn\u2019t like that at all.  Fixing things is a skill, and it takes time to get good.  Conditions are quite safe because people need a predictable, safe working environment to do repairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>In Cairo, Wiens says he met people who were capable of fixing everything from old cell phones to cars, computers and televisions, but that these imaginative people \u201cneed raw materials to work with\u201d and that an export ban \u201cwill harm the Egyptian economy in the long run\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green campaigners have been happy about moves to speed up the banning of the exportation of electronic waste to developing countries.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Downside of the Electronic Waste 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