Unfixable Gadgets
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The document discusses the issues with unfixable electronic devices. It notes that while these devices are desirable for their small size and thinness, they cannot be easily repaired by consumers. When these unrepairable devices are discarded, they are often sent to electronic scrapyards in places like Ghana where they are burned to recover raw materials, harming both worker health and the environment. The document encourages reusing and recycling old electronics when possible rather than throwing them out, such as by donating still-functioning used devices or properly recycling broken ones, in order to reduce electronic waste and protect the future of technology.
Unfixable Gadgets
- 1. Unfixable Gadgets and our future Aldr棚ycka Albuquerque High Intermediate 4
- 2. They are desirable Small Thin Compact but UNFIXABLE
- 3. You used to do that to PCs But now...
- 4. You even think about doing this
- 5. It is impossible to do that Why? by yourself Specialized technical services are expensive And why try to fix if you can spend less money buying the new model instead?
- 6. Yeah, but... Do you ever imagined where your old gadgets go when you throw them away? (When you dont just forget them on your junk drawer)
- 7. Scrapyards Electronic scrapyards in Ghana
- 8. They burn our electronic gadgets to obtain raw material to sell
- 9. Its awful to their health
- 10. Its awful to our health too. Ozone layer.
- 11. If you are concerned too, here what you can do: Are you buying a new gadget because you 1 Refuse need or because a new model was released? The gadget that is obsolete for you, can be 2 Reuse useful to someone else. Give it away for free. One electronic gadget can be recovered or even dismounted and give life to a dozen 3 Recycle new ones to be resold to undeveloped countries.
- 12. Your broken gadget can be refurbished for their school in Kenya.
- 13. So think more before buying a new gadget
- 14. Because technology is far more than just another new gadget its our future.