Ranjit Rajesh1, A.V. Galchenko2
1 Department
of Oncology, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in Peoples’ Friendship University of
Russia,
Miklukho-Maklay Street 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
2 Department
of rehabilitative diet therapy,
Federal Research Centre of Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety,
Ustinsky proezd, 2/14, Moscow, 109204,
Russian Federation
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ABSTRACT. We, humans, have invented many
technologies in the past few decades to enhance our lifestyles. Some of them
induce the invention of electronics like cell phones, better cooking
apparatuses, plastics, and insecticides for better farming. These inventions
are utilitarian at first look, but the other side of them greatly goes missing.
We are still manufacturing tons of cell phones, whereas the old disposed phones
are not properly recycled, hence they stay in the landfills polluting the
environment. The toxic elements required to manufacture such electronics also
have similar effects. Moreover, the convenient cooking apparatuses are coated
with chemicals that are harmful to humans. Similarly, the insecticides, used
for better farming are actually deleterious in the long run.
KEYWORDS: electronics, pesticides, plastics, cookware, gallium, bismuth, indium, lithium, cadmium.