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1. What is e-waste? What is so dangerous about e-waste? Many well-meaning individuals thought that recycling was the answer to the e-waste problem. But why hasn't e-waste recycling yielded the results hoped for?E-waste (electronic waste) refers to the discarded electronic or electrical devices that are no longer being used, are unwanted, non-working, and obsolete. All used electronics that are destined for resale, reuse, recycling, salvage, or disposal are also considered to be e-waste. E-waste affects nearly every system in the human body mainly because they contain a plethora of toxic components like lead, calcium, mercury, barium, lithium, cadmium, polybrominated and flame retardants (Cucchiella, D’Adamo, Koh, & Rosa, 2015). Recycling of e-waste is still the answer to the e-waste problem, but recycling has to be carried out in a laid-out manner and not just anyone should be allowed to recycle e-waste. Recycling of e-waste is labor intensive and recycling employees need to be properly clothed to ensure that they are not exposed to the toxins when working. There are many toxins that are created when recycling of e-waste and this leads to further problems that recycling plants had not foreseen.
2. What are network effects? Think about the kinds of technology products that you own,...
What sorts of exchange do these products leverage (e.g., information, money, software, or other media)? Give several concrete examples and explain them as clearly as you can in your own words.
Network effect refers to the phenomenon whereby a service or product will gain additional value as more people use the service or product. An example of network effects is the rise social media. The more users who are present on Twitter, sharing comments, media, and links, the more powerful the platform becomes to the public. The same effect of growth through traffic was experienced by Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube where the escalation of a user using the websites fostered more interest from even more users. WhatsApp has become the instant messaging service that everyone is using and its rise has also been due to network effects. The more there were users using the platform the more demand that was placed on the application resulting in increased usage and adoption across the globe. PayPal is payment service that has gained prominence due to the relative number of people who have been using it. As the number of people who paid for goods and services using PayPal increased more and more people became aware of the product and they started using it…
Cross-functional team dynamics require leaders who can be transformational in their ability to communicate compelling missions, goals and objectives for the teams, not just managing by action item lists and project plans (Santa, Ferrer, Bretherton, Hyland, 2010). The best cross-functional teams then have a level of passionate intensity about them; they see the much greater result they are attempting to accomplish as worth the sacrifices they need to attain them
Reverse Logistics Operations In the recent years, electronic waste (e-waste) has grown as a rapidly growing challenge affecting the environment. Most of the electronic components contain toxic substances that negatively affect the environment. The toxic substances pose detrimental health threats to the world population. In January 2009, the state of New Jersey signed into law e-waste legislation. The growing e-waste within the New Jersey communities contributed to close to 2%
" (from World environmental news, Internet edition) Besides developing flexible legislation that will distribute the functions of recycling between manufacturers and municipal services there has to be a definite and developed program that would specialize on the optimal and the most exhaust utilization of electronic waste, reduction of e-waste landfills and incineration. Recycling program should not be limited to the recycling of CRT monitors, as their owners are more likely to
Waste & Energy Waste products and fossil fuel usage are in part byproducts of our civilization and in part they are drivers of our civilization. Disposing of waste and managing fossil fuels present tremendous challenges to our society. We know that climate change is going to have a significant effect on the world, so that the world 100 years from now is quite different from the world today. We know that
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or even removed if they will not play along. It cannot be denied that, when done properly, electronic health records allows for such a seamless and beautiful result. As such, people that
Electronic Medical Records Over the years, with the technological development and digitalization of almost all the processes, there have been calls for the healthcare technology to be adopted in a wider sense of it. This has been mainly on the development of the appropriate chip and other electronic storage systems that can hold the information about each American's medical information and any other relevant data like the physical address and the