Environmental Science: E-waste Global Interconnections Project

This project delves into the intricate web of e-waste's global interconnections, examining the environmental and human impacts associated with the production, consumption, and disposal of electronic waste. The project begins by formulating inquiry questions to investigate the topic from both global and local perspectives. It then explores the interconnections between places, people, and environments, focusing on how these connections influence lives and the environment. The analysis includes identifying countries most affected by e-waste and the environmental consequences of improper disposal, such as soil and water contamination. The project also considers the role of telecommunications and internet services in recycling efforts and introduces innovations in the project. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of controlling e-waste to mitigate its impact and suggests modifying raw materials to minimize environmental hazards. The project provides a comprehensive overview of e-waste management and its implications for sustainable development.

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Introduction 50
There exist several interconnections in between various places as well as different people in
reference to various production, consumption as well as disposal of variety of e-wastes.
These different types of interconnections actually help to change lives of several people and
the social environment. However these electronic wastes can be treated in a sustainable
manner. This particular discussion will help to have a viewpoint from global as well as local
scales at e-waste. This will mainly contain different steps that will help to gather information
regarding management of e-wastes, collection as well as analysis of those data that would
talk about various relationships, trends or patterns and finding out ways by which various
geographical challenges can be met.
Discussion
Step 1: Construction of inquiry questions: (10)
General inquiry questions: Specific e-waste questions:
What? /
Where?
How do environmental and human
processes affect the characteristics of
places and environments?
What countries are the most
affected by e-waste?
What is the environmental impact
if electronics are not disposed of
correctly?
How much do you recycle e-
waste? If yes, where?
What? /
Where?
How do the interconnections between
places, people and environments affect
the lives of people?
What are the consequences of a
globally connected world for
people and places?
How? / What are the consequences of changes Why is e-waste dangerous to the

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Why? to places and environments and how can
these changes be managed?
environment?
How can e-wastes be managed to
avoid environmental dangers?
So what? What are the economic, social and
political impacts? Who are the
stakeholders?
Who will be affected by e-waste?
How do stakeholders have an
impact up on e-waste pollution?
What
should we
do?
What is being done and should be done
to mitigate negative impacts and
provide good outcomes?
How could we limit the amount of
e-waste produced?
How does i-Magazine Electronics
subsidiary takes an active part in
recycling e-wastes?
Identify case studies to illustrate your
inquiry
Step 2: Finding of appropriate data: (75 words)
Primary as well as secondary data
Primary data is the set of information collected by the investigator due to a particular
purpose. For example information collected by the researcher to more about the relationships
that exist between electronic wastes with that of social or economic environment. However
data at secondary level is usually collected due to some other purposes by some other people.
Quantitative as well as qualitative data
Quantitative data is a set of information that mostly focus up on the mathematical
calculations as well as various numbers. These data in terms of environmental concerns that
are arising due to disposal of electronic wastes and it allows research activities carried out in

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order to improve marketing activities as well as mathematical calculations. Qualitative data
consists of certain data structures that are mostly concerned on descriptions of data that
cannot be usually observed or undertake computational data.
Step 3: Description of data: (75 words)
What countries are the most affected by e-waste?
Countries like Economic Zones at various cities in Guangdong Province like Shenzhen as
well as Zhuhai and also the Ningbo, one of the province states in China usually get affected
due to due to disposal of electronic wastes.
What is the environmental impact if electronics are not disposed of correctly?
If these wastes are not disposed properly then certain minerals like gold, tin, tungsten as well
as tantalum are disposed in the soil or they are released in water due to which rivers as well
as water bodies get contaminated.
Step 4: Analysis of data (75 words)
On analysing these data, various sources on telecommunication help to recycle phones and
this would have a great deal of impact up on the environment. Telecommunications as well as
internet services help in introducing various innovations in the project.
Step 5: Evaluation of data (75 words)
Conclusion 50
Therefore from the above discussion, it can be concluded that e-wastes need to be controlled
in order to reduce their impact and various sources of internet, components of raw materials
must be modified to certain extent in order to minimize environmental hazards.

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