Environmental Factors:

Question 1

What are the dangers of disposing computing technologies?

Answer 1

- Releases harmful toxins:
= Dioxins.
= Chromium.
= Mercury.
= Cadmium.
= Radioactive isotopes.
= Computing technology is often shipped to coumtries with lower standard of for disposal.
= People look in waste for metals to be sold and recycled, exposure.

Question 2

How does the manafacturing of of computing technologies?

Answer 2

• Takes 10 times its weight in fossil fuels to make.
  = Great amount of energy.
  = 2% of global energy consuption is used in data centres
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