About

Shift+Delete. That’s all it takes to instantaneously delete a computer file. 

But tackling e-waste, or electronic waste, is a lot harder than pressing a couple of buttons.

I’m Li-Ann, a Y4 Geography student from NUS. In this blog, I’d like to dig deeper into the hot-button issue of the global e-waste challenge. Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be taking a closer look at e-waste pollution, separated into these three main chapters:

  1. Origins and causes
  2. Effects and implications
  3. Local and global solutions