A few of us at The Georgetown Public Policy Review look ahead to 2015 and reflect on events that impacted international affairs in the past year.
International Affairs in 2015
OP-ED: We Need to Clean Up Our Trash
Annually, only about a quarter of American electronic waste is recycled responsibly, or in other words, not exported or landfilled. The remaining waste—much of it toxic—often ends up overseas where it is processed by children and other workers in unsafe conditions, causing health and environmental problems. Instead, we should be recycling this electronic waste in the US, where we have the proper technology and regulations to do so without causing harm to people or the environment.