The environmental and economic analysis of solutions to the growing e-waste issue

As the issue of e-waste continues to grow alongside the expansion of technology, the solutions required to counteract the problem need to keep up and adapt as well. However, the present solutions implemented lack advanced development and are unable to remedy the growing issue. Through this paper, we focused on four different solutions: extended life of smartphones, increased e-waste recycling centers, increased accessibility to electronic repairs, and finally, increased efficiency of e-waste recycling centers. Honing in on cost and benefit analysis and data analysis, we deducted that increasing efficiency of e-waste recycling centers was the best solution to focus on. Not only does this solution increase the amount of e-waste that can be processed and reduce overall pollution in our landfills, the resources that can be extracted as well can help reduce even more waste that is produced by technology companies in new electronic production.