Ewaste is growing rapidly. Handling it offers enormous economic opportunities and the potential for numerous lucrative green jobs. Companies like techwasterecycling.com have created numerous green jobs while protecting the environment.
Ewaste is a growing problem in the United States. American consumers buy more electronic products than another group. This has led to a dire need for proper disposal and recycling of ewaste. Ewaste disposal companies have embraced the challenge and have created a massive amount of green jobs in the process. Those jobs range from management of recycling facilities to creating companies to transforms the ewaste into new products and general laborers to collect, haul and process electronic waste. Ewaste has also produced designers, procurement staff and warehousing positions.
Job Creation
According to a recent report, the Environmental Protection Agency estimate that ewaste is growing up to three times as fast as any other type of waste. Ewaste recycling companies have taken up the challenge and are now one of the most rapidly growing industries in the United States. New government policies mandate most government ewaste be recycled. This has helped to lay the groundwork for the creation and growth of U.S. based recycling companies and with them thousands of new green jobs. The Responsible Electronics Recycling Act promises to create even more green jobs.
Bright Economic Future
The recycling industry in the United States is now larger than the auto industry. For every 10 tons of waste kept out of landfills between 10 and 75 recycling jobs can be created. A Green Economy survey conducted by the state of California estimates one in four of the 433,000 green jobs in the state is in recycling. The survey also showed that some of the best sustainable business practices are in creating, buying and selling recycled products. Ewaste recycling makes up a significant portion these jobs and an estimated 42,000 new green jobs generating $772 million would soon be created. For the sluggish U.S. economy this is great news.
Diverse Jobs
One of the great things about the green jobs being created is their diversity. There are positions being available in an amazing array of fields needed to support the collecting, processing, repurposing, designing, and marketing of ewaste and its products. This means there’s room in the industry for workers with diverse skill sets. Ewaste is a growing industry which will require new college courses and create lucrative new careers for young people and retrained older workers entering the job market. It’s also creating excellent opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs.
According to the Coalition For American eWaste Recycling although almost 1.2 billion pounds of electronics were recycled last year, another 3.6 billion pounds of e-waste needed to be processed.
