In Latin America’s developing nations, old and unwanted cell phones, laptops, printers, fax machines and more are piling up everywhere, quickly packing landfills and poisoning the environment.
Though most corporations and governments see South America’s e-waste crisis as a burden, Green Technology Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: GTSO) views it as an opportunity. Through its mining subsidiary, GTSO Resources, the company is working to bring green, efficient e-waste recycling processes to a region in desperate need of them.
In some Latin American nations, such as Ecuador, there are no national policies whatsoever related to the treatment of e-waste. Discarded computers, batteries and other hazardous waste are being deposited in municipal landfills and mixed with normal trash, posing a serious danger to public health as metals such as lead and mercury seep out. Lack of policy has also made the region a hotbed for legal and illegal dumping of e-waste from developed nations such as the U.S.
That’s why GTSO is hard at work developing the right partnerships in nations such as these to install efficient new recycling infrastructure to tackle the e-waste problem.
Source: Business Wire