High-tech trash abstract

Whenever you get a new piece of technology two things usually happen. One you throw away your old one and two you will probably be throwing that one away to in a few years. In the National Geographic "High-tech Trash" an article by Chris Carroll Carrol talks about what happens after we throw out our old technology for new models. Most of this tech trash gets discarded illegally in third world countries. In this article Carrol focuses mostly on Ghana. In Ghana the amount of tech trash has been growing for years. Most civilians will try and salvage the spare parts to sell. But the rest of the e-waste is actually very harmful to the environment. If we continue to throw away this trash unresponsively this can potentially destroy the planet.