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=Focus Question:What are alternatives to throwing away your unwanted electronics?:J =

 When you get a new computer what do you do with your old one? Millions of people would answer throw it away. But why when you can recycle it, donate it to a school, hospital, prison, or even your local library. If we all recycled our old, used, broken, unwanted electronics we can reduce so much pollution. In fact if we donated just a million cell phone we will have reduced enough pollution equal to taking 1,368 cars off the road for a year! Isn't that great? About 50 million cell phones are replaced worldwide in a month, less than 10% of E waste is recycled, E waste is 2% of trash in America's landfills and 70% of the overall toxic waste. 15% of people recycle their old computers, the other 85% do not! The pollution from these electronics have a lot of lead that causes damage to the nervous system, blood, and kidneys.



 I think that if everyone recycled then we could reduce a lot of pollution in the world, have less trash in landfills, and save money on buying new electronics. If we all try to recycle and not always buy the new thing that comes out we could save resources and not have as much pollution. My solution will help you and the environment. Recycling is probably not the first that comes to your mind when you see a commercial on the next new electronic, but it should be, it is vary im  portant to the Earth.  You should recycle because you can help the environment by reducing pollution, you could donate, which is giving away your things to people who want or need it for free. You waste more and more money buying the next new thing when you have a perfectly good computer. You will save money, help the environment and yourself, you will help yourself by saving money, and you will help save the environment by reducing trash and pollution in our world which is vary important because the Earth is our home and it's not just like a game of Super Mario Bros were if you die or mess up the game you can start fresh, we only have one world, one chance and if we don't take care of it now and start fixing what we have done, there will be no more Earth.

 We all need to recycle so that we can save our Earth, our money, and help other people in need that can't afford the essentials that they need. I WANT YOU TO GO AND RECYCLE NOW, DON'T THROW AWAY ANOTHER ELECTRONIC, AND HELP SAVE OUR PLANET!!!! =Sources|Credit:P =
 * http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-e-waste
 * http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/22/usat-recycle.htm
 * http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf