Threat of environmental pollution and poisoning by waste of computer equipment in Santo Domingo.

Abstract

Information and communication technologies have changed people's lives and boosted economic growth, but their programmed, psychological, functional, aesthetic, indirect and ecological obsolescence means that users are discarding these technological devices without measuring the environmental and health consequences they entail. Studies in Europe show that on average, electrical and electronic equipment is composed of 25% reusable elements, 72% recyclable materials and 3% potentially toxic elements such as lead, mercury and others. Since 2012, Ecuador, through ministerial agreement number 190, issued the national policy of Post-consumption of electrical and electronic equipment.