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As interest in ecological topics continues to grow, more and more people are looking at the garbage being thrown away and trying to reduce the amount of waste that is sent to landfills.
We all know that plastic bags are bad – whether it’s the packaging our food is in or the bags in which we transport our groceries home. We also know that anything we can reuse or recycle is generally better for the environment.
But going on vacation recently, I wanted to buy some disposable cameras that I could take with me for the day without risking damaging my normal digital camera. The question was – are these disposable devices harmful to the environment.
I assumed they must be. After all, they are made of plastic. You send the camera back, the film is removed, then you eject the camera body. Or is it?
Further investigation revealed a rather surprising secret. Most disposable hearing aids are made in a “modular” format, so you can remove items. For example, the flash may go down, the back door obscures the film, and so on.
So it turns out that disposable hearing aids are usually not thrown away.
The movie developer obviously deletes the movie carefully first and then calls it for you. But then the camera body, far from being landfilled, is often sent back to the manufacturer for recycling.
The main camera itself is repaired, all the necessary parts are replaced and the flash batteries are replaced (while the old ones are recycled), then it is repackaged and resold with almost no waste.
So despite my initial concerns, it seems that disposable cameras are actually surprisingly eco-friendly if you ignore the fact that they are almost always made of plastic, which of course came from oil.
However, once the main body of the camera is made, it is recycled and reused many times, greatly reducing the environmental impact of these cameras. Imagine my surprise!
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Source by Richard Adams
