Phones good for the environment? Cell phones prove dangerous to society because they create environmental hazards, disrupt classroom learning, increase cyberbullying, and cause more automobile accidents than drunk driving. Cell phones are hazards for the environment. Because cell phones are so small and cheap to manufacture, it is easier and less costly to just discard old ones and make new ones than it is to responsibly recycle or refurbish old phones. Because of this, Mobile phones are ones of the most ubiquitous types of e-waste in the world. Each years, some 130 million cell phone …show more content…
The wireless industry must do more to educate consumers and its own personnel about the importance of properly recycling cell phones, and it must offer opportunities to do so. A company’s responsibility does not end by setting up a used phone take-back programs. However, they must go a step further to ensure that the collection and processing of the phones is done in an environmentally responsible way and that e-waste is not dumped or improperly handled after it is collected (Earthworks 1). Smartphones offer several disadvantages in an educational setting. Such as the electronic delivery of textbooks. And other learning materials to students and linking classmates together with communication technology. Nonetheless together with the temptations to text, surf the internet also log onto social networks, mobile device are also “tools of mass distraction” in the classroom (“Smartphones Do Not Benefit Classroom Learning” 1). The role of technology in the classroom has no doubt been a contentious issue since the first Roman students brought an abuse to his grammaticus. Listing the most up-to-date equipment in school has always. Seemed to be a necessity. And yet the process of learning really changed that much since ancient times. Teachers still need to