Greetings dear friends of the #Steem platform, in this opportunity I want to share with all of you some notions about how technological advances have significantly improved our social living conditions, and at the same time I will make a contrast of how technological development in the current context of modernity has contributed to increase the problems of environmental pollution from metals and chemicals used in the manufacture of technological devices.

Fig. 2 Metals and chemicals used in the manufacture of technological devices pollute the environment. Public domain image, Author: Pixabay

In times of modernity, an endless number of arguments have been generated, which state that technological development will bring more and more evils to humanity, however, these assertions go unnoticed and are not considered as real problems, because technological development provides social welfare.

Now, it is necessary to highlight that these arguments fall into two scientific currents, the environmental and the technological, the first one is based on the negative behavior of technological development and the second one is based on the idea of progress coming from connectivity and social interaction through virtual spaces.

One element to mention is that, in spite of the contradictions between both scientific currents, there is a point of equilibrium that appears as a form of coexistence, because strategies are being promoted to recycle strategically important materials considered as electronic waste.

E-waste is chemical compounds such as cerium, neodymium and others that are extremely hazardous to the environment, as well as physical devices such as circuit boards, magnets, hard disks, batteries and fluorescent bulbs.

The truth is that this electronic waste contains strategic metals, which can be reused at an industrial level, mainly in recycling plants, thus reducing the exaggerated use of extraction of essential raw materials that affect the environment.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES CONSULTED:

[1] Owen W Strategic Materials: Technologies To Reduce U.S. Import Vulnerability. Artículo: Acceso Online

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✔ The cover image was designed by the author: @lupafilotaxia, incorporating the public domain image background: Pixabay