#electronic pollution

[hope-for-the-planet]

Malaysia bans e-waste imports and cracks down on illegal dumping | The Optimist Daily

Malaysia has announced a full ban on e-waste imports, strengthening enforcement as it vows to stop being a dumping ground for global electro

From the article:

In a bold move to protect public health and the environment, Malaysia enacted an immediate and total ban on the import of electronic waste, or e-waste, as the government steps up efforts to stop illegal dumping and corruption tied to waste management. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) announced last week that all e-waste would now fall under the “absolute prohibition” category, effectively eliminating prior loopholes that allowed limited importation. Previously, the Department of Environment could grant exemptions for certain categories of e-waste. This discretion has now been revoked. “E-waste is no longer permitted,” said MACC chief Azam Baki in a statement, pledging “firm and integrated enforcement action” to prevent illegal imports. The move comes amid an ongoing corruption probe involving top officials in the environmental agency.

[gloucesterjournal-blog]

If you’d like to save electricity—which is energy, which is a precious resource at the root of many of our wars on each other and on nature—and if you’d like to protect your health, which to some minute degree is probably effected by electro magnetic waves, you can put your wireless router etc on a power strip. Many of you already have. Then when leaving your computer, going for a walk, or most importatly going to bed for a good eight hour stretch, you just turn it off with the flick of a single switch. You’re also doing your neighborhood a small favor, by reducing the overall electronic pollution.