Alex Lin is a 14 year old teen activist who is trying to get rid of e-waste by recycling and refurbishing old computers to create media centers in developing countries such as Sri Lanka.
So far, he has recycled 300,000 pounds of e-waste and has persuaded Rhode Island to ban dumping electronics into landfills. Though this is a lot, Alex Lin quotes in a video ''every long journey starts with a short step''
When you dump electronics into landfills, elements in the electronics such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and PBDEs in the casing seep into the rivers, our crops, animals, and our own food.
Alex Lin got the idea of recycling e-waste from an article in the Wall Street Journal and was horrified at how people were killing the environment with e-waste and dumping it all in land fills or burning it.
Now the state is getting money from Alex Lin's W.I.N. Team recycling container and is becoming greener at the same time.
So far, he has recycled 300,000 pounds of e-waste and has persuaded Rhode Island to ban dumping electronics into landfills. Though this is a lot, Alex Lin quotes in a video ''every long journey starts with a short step''
When you dump electronics into landfills, elements in the electronics such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and PBDEs in the casing seep into the rivers, our crops, animals, and our own food.
Alex Lin got the idea of recycling e-waste from an article in the Wall Street Journal and was horrified at how people were killing the environment with e-waste and dumping it all in land fills or burning it.
Now the state is getting money from Alex Lin's W.I.N. Team recycling container and is becoming greener at the same time.