SS+Ewaste+neg+-+No+Solvency

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E-cycling current e-waste fails. Waste is old, decomposed, and dispersed.
John **__Njagi__**, grad student in Nairobi of mass communication and media arts,and Kui **__Kinyanjui__**, editor for the Business Daily, Business Daily, July 9th, **__2007__** (“Dealers asked to act on growing electronic waste” http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1824&Itemid=5810) Through this channel, **__computers__** as old as the Commodore 64 **__that were last used__** in the United States **__in the 80s have been shipped__** **__to Africa.__** **__Often left to rot in expansive dumping grounds__**, electronic waste contains a wide range of toxins including cadmium, mercury and lead that contaminate water sources and wreak havoc on agricultural land.


 * __The UN says much of the e-waste ends up on garbage dumps where they decompose and release dangerous elements__** such as lead, canadium, and mercury. CFSK disputes the claim, saying the donated computers could last for at least three years.

Damage has been done. Existing e-waste leaked and the aff can not recover it.
Shawn C. **__Morton,__** environmental policy analyst, **__1998__** (“Hazardous waste trade,” http://www.web.ca/~smorton/waste_trade.html) One of the problems with the export of **__hazardous wastes is__** that it is destined for disposal in countries that have neither the technical expertise nor the facilities to dispose of the waste in an environmentally sound manner. **__Often__** these wastes were simply **__dumped on properties in leaking barrels with__** environmentally **__devastating results__**. **__Ultimately the waste would leach into the soil and water table__** causing health and environmental problems for the local areas.

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Ewaste is inevitable as long as corporations can dump far away.
Shawn C. **__Morton,__** environmental policy analyst, **__1998__** (“Hazardous waste trade,” http://www.web.ca/~smorton/waste_trade.html) Another important component in the link between hazardous waste and sustainable development is that of the proximity principle. The principle, espoused by the European Union in its regulation of hazardous wastes, is based on the concept that the closer to the source of production that the waste is dealt with then the greater the likelihood that it will be handled in an environmentally safe manner. By exporting hazardous waste there is less incentive for firms to alter their production methods and for consumers to switch to alternative products that generate less waste. In expanding the distance between its production, consumption and disposal there is less awareness of the environmental consequence that arise from disposing of hazardous waste (out if sight out of mind). However, when waste is disposed of closer to home, -- that is where it is produced and consumed -- this awareness is present. This can ultimately create a demand for both production and consumption patterns that produce less hazardous waste. It was original awareness of the problems associated with hazardous waste that created the existing tough regulatory regime in most Northern countries.

Technological dependence reinscribes the need to dump. The Affirmative doesn’t address the root of the problem.
John **__Njagi__**, grad student in Nairobi of mass communication and media arts,and Kui **__Kinyanjui__**, editor for the Business Daily, Business Daily, July 9th, **__2007__** (“Dealers asked to act on growing electronic waste” http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1824&Itemid=5810) This together with proliferation of mobile phones in the ongoing wireless revolution should add to the pile of electronic waste that environmental activists say could have significant impact on agriculture and the food chain.

Illegal dumping happens in Africa.
John **__Njagi__**, grad student in Nairobi of mass communication and media arts,and Kui **__Kinyanjui__**, editor for the Business Daily, Business Daily, July 9th, **__2007__** (“Dealers asked to act on growing electronic waste” http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1824&Itemid=5810) The authority has called the practice illegal, and hopes to create a more stringent guide to dictate how electronic waste will be handled.

Taxation solutions oversimplify waste problems offering utopian solutions.
Silvia Ulli **__Beer__**, doctorate dissertation for the University of pc. Gallen in economics, 04.05.**__2004__** (“Citizens’ Choice and Public Policy :A System Dynamics Model for Recycling Management at the Local Level” http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/2918/$FILE/dis2918.pdf Pg. 39-40) Although economics may help give theoretical arguments about why a nation wide policy of solid waste management could be a cost efficient way of internalizing externalities and seeking a social optimum in a perfect world, with perfect markets and perfect decisionmakers, the System Dynamics model approach may help understand complex phenomena of the imperfect and “faulty” reality. Hence, the SD-SWM-model offers a complementary theory explaining the observed phenomena. In this sense, the specific SD-SWM-model may help practically in micro controlling and in fine-tuning the systems performance, whereas the economic approach may help find policy principles that would theoretically lead to an “optimal” solution. Furthermore, economics describes an “optimal solution” and the state of the system in equilibrium whereas the System Dynamics model focuses on the transition process. In having this focus it helps to understand the driving forces leading the system from one to another equilibrium. One strength of economics is its consistent mathematical formalization of the theory. Therefore, the theory can guide the problem structuring process leading to an intersubjective explanation and solution that is well understood between economists and can easily be replicated. However, this may also limit its adequacy for certain issues (see Thaler 2000, Tversky and Kahneman 1974, Kahneman, Knetsch et al. 1986)) and may be seen as over simplistic (Forrester 2003, Radzicki 2003, Atkinson 2003, Shilling 2003).