Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Israel Environmental Ministry to Launch E-waste Handling Awareness

Israel is developing countries with the several innovative people are working to take the country to next level. The advancement in the technology field start making new problem called E-waste, which is too dangerous for world and in Israel there are several e-waste management companies working to eliminate the problem. Also the Israeli Govt. trying to handle the situation by proposing new policies and plans that are helpful in a way to recycle the goods, but recycling is not the only way; the Govt. must to spread the awareness into the people to reduce the use of the devices.

So in order to spread the awareness into people Ministry of Environment will be starting a campaign into Israel in next couple of weeks according to Minister. This campaign will be telling the public about how they can dispose their electronics without polluting the environment. And also what is the effect of the e-waste on living organism. Throwing them into landfills will be lead the humans to several type of health problems because the electronic components such as lead cadmium, beryllium mercury and others which is dangerous.

A spoke person of Environment Ministry said that people will be seeing the campaign live into next couple of weeks and it will be promoting better management and disposal of the products after end of life. As of now there is over 94 percent of total population have the Smartphone in Jordan and about two fifth of people own PC and Laptop.



The ministry has already started distributing bins in different regions for people to discard their unwanted gadgets, the official told The Jordan Times on Thursday. In addition to the collection bins, the campaign also entails the distribution of stickers and brochures to the public to guide them on ways to handle electronic waste.”

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