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Sustainable Management Community

Nowadays, most people are guided toward a consumption of electronic devices. The digital

age and the new technologies of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by

digital devices has increased dramatically worldwide. Today's society has added to your life

devices until recently were not necessary, and perhaps even some are questioning whether

they are strictly necessary. It's true. These devices have greatly facilitated the daily lives of

many companies and individuals around the world, to communicate from one end of the

planet to another, no longer a problem, thanks to these technologies. The digital age and the

new technologies of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by digital devices

has increased dramatically worldwide. Today's society has added to your life devices until

recently were not necessary, and perhaps even some are questioning whether they are

strictly necessary. It's true. These devices have greatly facilitated the daily lives of many

companies and individuals around the world, to communicate from one end of the planet to

another, no longer a problem, thanks to these technologies.

The generators of these electronic devices have become big companies, with an extremely

large market. Companies like HP, Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba, Apple and Samsung

lead the market of computers and smartphones. About 80% of the world population owns a

cell phone, of those, about 400 million have a smartphone and a tablet, while about 1.5

billion people have a computer and used over two billion internet. The market is growing

day of day and these companies are innovating their products quickly, this implies that

technologies go out of fashion or become obsolete within a very short time.

This step fashion, it generates far the competitiveness of electronics companies, in an effort

to conquer the market taking new appliances or more advanced models, any minimal

modification having a new model, which leaves almost obsolete before. Advertising

campaigns encourage the client to consume impulsively purchase only focusing on the new

features that may have the devices.

Today's society is directed to a disproportionate consumerism often where you may not

need any specific equipment for the individual, but because of the great reputation

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advertising, these are purchased. This causes thousands of people to have an excessive

amount of electronic devices and often have to discard the oldest or useless.

Most electronic devices do not have any biodegradable component, in contrast, are highly

harmful chemicals to living things and pollute the environment. The discarded equipment

have different outcomes, some are resold in a secondary market, others are deposited in the

garbage and some are taken to places where stored for different purposes.

In most countries of the world there are a lot of companies involved in recycling of

electronic devices, in the case of Costa Rica there are few, Fortech is one of them, this

company is dedicated to recycling waste electrical and fluorescent. When these devices are

not recycled in a proper way, are often deposited in makeshift places of course recycling. In

these places the regenerative working craft, which are mainly engaged in cable sheathing,

this practice is highly injurious to health, since these devices release toxic chemicals to

health and the environment.

In developed countries such as the United States, the number of devices that are purchased

is proportional to the number of discarded electronic devices. In the best cases these wastes

are collected by authorized and processed in treatment plants and metal recovery. But the

reality is different. Most waste is sent from these countries to developing countries,

especially India, China and West African countries like Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast.

These countries sell second hand or proceed to waste recovery techniques unsuitable; an

example is burning the device.

But when there are a big number of electronic devices, these are simply discarded in

neighborhoods and communities, on vacant lots or worse in the rivers. This causes a direct

pollution to the environment, especially since these devices are highly polluting. This

usually happens for many reasons, one of them may be having little environmental

education and other principal inhabitant is little or no community management to these e-

wastes.

In a country like Costa Rica underdevelopment can’t expect that in every community there

is a recycler of these electronic devices, nor do municipalities are fully responsible for

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these. That is why communities must implement self, strategies for proper recycling of this

waste.

It is critical to implement campaigns in the community to collect this type of device, where

the citizen has the disposal facility somewhere nearby and then this is recycled in the best

way, and in the first instance protecting the health of citizens and the environment. Also

you should plan a campaign of environmental education in these communities, maybe this

way you can create a society reflection on the great problem of consumerism

disproportionate electronics.

A sustainable community management must go beyond recycling electronics, must be

supported by the entire community, using campaigns with the idea of the three R's, Reduce,

Reuse and Recycle. It also must implement environmental education programs for all

citizens, not excluding, showing the passing reality our planet today and needs to

implement measures to reduce, reuse of resources.

Enact the importance of saving electricity and water, maintain good communication with

the city to try to end the problem of wastewater, implement recycling campaigns, and many

other actions, should be done if you get to have a sustainable community with the

environment.

In our country it is difficult to guide a sustainable community to clean energy such as solar,

cogeneration, heat transport, geothermal, hydroelectric and other, as these involve

economic effort unreasonably high. But some companies, some people and a few state

actions, have implemented clean energy projects, although isolated from a sustainable

community.

A good strategy is implemented by the municipality of the village of "Settimo Torinese" in

Italy; this reduces the tax on real estate to implement those reforms at home, with the goal

of reducing the consumption of energy resources.

A great proposal and is developing the village is sustainable "green gap" in Italy. It is a

mega development project, which is located north of Italy and consists of a large city and

nestled among piles on a green surface. On top of that garden, will stay residences,

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entertainment, shops and laboratories. This is a project of Ecocity, which implies that it is a

city designed on ecological principles; the eco-towns are a great idea to try and approach to

sustainable development.

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