Where Your CellPhone Goes to Die

            The article, "Where Your  Cellphone Goes to Die," is about what happens to your old phones when they are trashed. The article also talks about the cons of waisting cellphones when they can easily be recycled. I think the government should make it illegal to to export or traffic in toxic e-waste. The toxic e-waste of the cellphones can be very dangerous to humans.
            In the article, it says "places in Ghana, India, and China, children into mountains and burn it so they can extract metals-cppoer wires, gold, and silver threads.Children inhale the smoke from burned phone casings as they identify separate different kinds of plastics for recyclers." This means that children have exposure to all these dangerous chemicals from extract metals and burned phone cases. This can lead to lung cancer and other serious health risks. The article also said, " The World Health Organization (W. H. O) reports that even a low level of exposure to lead, cadmium, and mercury-all of which can be found in old phones- can cause irreversible neurological damage and threaten the development of a child." This means that children can be dangerously affected by being exposed to hazardous chemicals such as lead, cadmium and mercury. This can lead the spread of sickness through out the whole country.
                 The US government also needs to take a stand to this dangerous toxic e-waste system.  In the article it said,"The United States, for example, could ratify the Basel Convention, an international treaty that makes it illegal to export or traffic in toxic e-waste. The US is the only industrialized nation that hasn't signed the treaty." I think the US government needs to take this a lot more seriously because it is a very dangerous process that poses serious health risks to children. The article says, : If governments or manufactures don't take action, consumers can still help. We could recycle the ones we no longer use through certified recycling services like e-Stewards, a nonprofit organization that runs certification programs for e-waste recyclers, ensuring that goods are not improperly exported." I don't think we should have to replace our new devices. Why can't we just repair them?
                  This made think deeper about humanity because it makes think about all of the poor countries in the world like Ghana, India, and China that burn piles and piles of e-waste just to get extract metals to sells to merchants for a low price. This are at many serious health risks by doing this dangerous procedures. Is it really worth it?