Pollution!

Why should you care? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, about 70% of the toxic heavy metals in landfills comes form electronic waste. At some point electronics break or become obsolete; but the lead and mercury contained inside them cause lasting damage to our environment by leaching into the ground water and polluting our streams [...]

So much waste!

Look at what is in U.S. landfills 30%   Paper and other paper products 24%   Plastic products (plastic bags/containers) 11%    Food and yard waste 8%     Metal products 6%     Rubber and Leather such as tires, old shoes, old clothing and furniture 21%   Other trash (broken TVs, old lamps, diapers, [...]