SAP Introduction

For my Social Action Project I would like to tackle the issue with e-waste and its effect on other people and the environment. E-waste is a very important issue in our world today that is harming our environment as well as other people. E-waste is what electronics are after dispose of them when we are finished using them. Typically our e-waste goes to different countries such as India or China where people living in poverty take them apart for their valuable materials to salvage for little money. Unfortunately, the easiest way to get these materials from these pieces of technology is through the dangerous process of incineration, this releases heavy metals that are harmful to our bodies such as lead, cadmium and mercury into the air and ashes from the burned technology that can come into contact with the body and become fatal. The major route of exposure for the general public from these metals is when mercury is released into the atmosphere. This leads to the bio-accumulation of mercury into the foodchain, particularly in fish. What people don't know is that we are the ones that are making this e-waste. We are making this e-waste in the sense that us consumers are buying products that contain harmful materials when broken down for their materials after we throw them away. 

I would like to use guerrilla art for my Social Action Project. Guerrilla art is a very common way that people express their views and opinions. Guerrilla art has been used to change the pictogram of the person in a wheelchair to indicate something is wheel chair accessible. This was done by a group of people who put stickers depicting a more dynamic humanized pictogram over thousands of old symbols in New York City. It raised so much attention that when hurricane Sandy came and destroyed a lot of things, they replaced many old handicap signs with the new one.

Bibliograpy
         "Where Does E-waste End Up?" Greenpeace International. Green Peace, 24 Feb. 2009. Web. 15 Oct. 2013 <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/electronics/the-e-waste-problem/where-does-e-waste-end-up/>