On Being

Green

and Decreasing

E-waste

Have you heard about having a green thumb? Do you have one? Believe it or not, if you are contemplating selling your iPad, you might actually have green thumb tendencies.

What Is a Green Thumb?

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• According to Wiktionary.com, a green thumb is a person who possesses “green fingers” or it is a state of being “green-fingered” which means that the person has an innate ability to grow plants.xz

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• It is supported by the Urban Dictionary by saying that a person with a green thumb is actually an individual with an excellent way of keeping nature healthy and teeming with life.

So what does it have to do with online selling?

Well, earning or gaining a green thumb through online selling is associated with these meanings but it does not mean the same thing. When I say that you can earn a green thumb through online selling, I mean it in a way where you can protect these green things by not disturbing the environment with harmful chemicals from dumped electronic wastes or e-waste.

E-Wastes E-wastes are the crimes committed by tech owners when they happen to throw away their broken gadgets irresponsibly. Throwing away things that contains damaging elements like lead, cadmium and radioactive residue will result in having our surroundings polluted by e-wastes.

E-waste is really bad for human health as much as it is for the animals and plants. It can pollute bodies of water whether big or small in just a short span of time. It can really destroy the lives of the creatures living underwater, on land, and those who are breathing air to survive. Of course, that includes us, offenders of the crime.

Even if we are the very reason for having e-wastes polluting our planet, we should still

not wait until our planet gets destroyed before we come to realize that what we are

doing is wrong. It is definitely our responsibility to take action and initiate a

change in our ways so we can turn the tide against e-wastes.

Fighting E-wastes With Online Selling

This means that we no longer have to be worried about how we can dispose of these devices without harming nature. We

can now rely on refurbishment companies and their professional ways of getting rid of hazardous gadget parts

without endangering any life living on the planet.

We absolutely can fight e-wastes through online selling. Yes, you read that right. A simple act of selling used iPads can

decrease electronic waste. This is because if we sell our old and used electronic devices, they will be properly recycled using only the best equipment of refurbishing companies.

It is a simple task to help contribute to thousands of advocacy campaigns raised to protect nature and the planet as a whole. It can be our one way ticket to restoring what has already been damaged through the years of ignorance and obliviousness about the destructiveness of e-waste.

As humans, we are in charge of doing this, more to ensure that the illegal practice of incineration does not continue to contribute to massive e-waste diffusion. And yes, not only will you help in eliminating e-waste when you sell iPad online, you also get some cash. It’s a win-win situation for everyone!