For starters polluter pays principle is a commonly accepted practice that those who produce pollution should bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment. This definition is from
theguardian.com and its their definition. An example of something like this would be you going to the apple store and buying a new iPhone and instead of taking the packaging home you could unbox it there and Apple will be responsible for the disposal of it. If you wanted to give your phone back to Apple when you are done using it they will have to take it back in and properly dispose of it. This is great because some people just throw their old technology out and it can go in the landfill or be incinerated which is releases toxic chemicals into the environment which can pollute the water and the air. According to
scientificamerican.com U.S. residential and businesses will scrap about 133,000 PCs daily. It is harder to recycle and refurbish them because it is so cheap for people to buy a newer one. A program call Plug-In encourages manufacturers and retailers to take back used electronics so that customers do not simply throw them in the weekly trash. Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Sony all take back their products at no charge. In this next picture is one that I liked because it really disturbed me as weird as that sounds.
This pictures shows an asian man going through a mountain of technology and this stuff will never decompose and will be there for thousands of years. Should companies be blamed for this or should the consumers be blamed? I think that is is not the companies fault for this but they should be doing more to make their products not end up in landfills with more incentive.
Here at Ohio University students do their share to try to properly recycle old televisions that will have most likely ended up in a landfill or shipped overseas for parts in other countries.
