ROBBINSVILLE, New Jersey With billions of smartphones and personal computers dotting data maps all over the planet, technology has effectively taken over. Yet, while rapidly advancing technology has revolutionized the world and provided the means for the human race to make unprecedented progress in society, there are costs. Tech companies produce these devices in mass to provide for the astronomical number of people who need them, but the world’s poor have to deal with the trash. E-waste in Pakistan is particularly detrimental to the nation’s poor.
E-waste, short for electronic waste, encompasses discarded electronic parts that have either no use in modern society anymore or have ceased to function. Most of these devices are given to certain retailers but are typically never sold. With the sheer volume of technological devices existing today, one cannot help but wonder what happens to all this trash. Hazardous waste landfills would be one simple solution, which is where e-wast