Explain the environmental health and safety risks associated with the unsafe disposal of electronic wastes

Explain the environmental health and safety risks associated with the unsafe disposal of electronic wastes

You are employed by a large electronics company that has manufacturing and assembly facilities in multiple locations in the U.S. and throughout the world. The unsafe disposal of electronic wastes generated by this company has captured the media’s attention. As a new manager of corporate health and safety for this company you are asked to make changes in their waste disposal system. For this case assignment, read the article below and answer the following questions: Burger J. (2008). Environmental management: integrating ecological evaluation, remediation, restoration, natural resource damage assessment and long-term stewardship on contaminated lands. The Science of the total environment, 400(1-3), 6–19. 1) Explain the environmental health and safety risks associated with the unsafe disposal of electronic wastes. 2) Apply the Ecosystem Approach described in Figures 1-5 in the Burger J. (2008), to describe strategies that can be used in this situation to ensure the company’s safe disposal of electronic wastes worldwide.