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Impacts of Digital Tech - Coggle Diagram
Impacts of Digital Tech
Sustainability
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Material that make up your phone, at some point had to be dug up as raw material.
This raw material was then processed, refined, transported and shaped into each component.
So it does not make much sense to throw away all that material, energy and effort into landfill, never to be seen again.
Recycling
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Recycle
Environmental impact reduced by salvaging as many components and breaking the rest down into their base materials
E-waste
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Then as the rain washes it away, rivers and water supplies can be contaminated
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Data centres
Data centres use a lot of energy to run the machines. They also generate a lot of heat, which requires even more power to manage
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They can contain hundreds, even thousands of networked computers
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