E Commerce And Its Impact On Waste Management

In the article, “From Gadget to Garbage: Tackling The Problem of Discarded Technology” from the Orange County Register, the NewsELA staff states, “No one is sure how much e-waste ends up being exported from the U.S., the EPA says, but “the United States government is concerned that these exports are being mismanaged abroad, causing serious public health and environmental hazards.” The quote explains that by exporting e-waste incorrectly, public health and the environment are being put at risk. The quoted statement implies that e-waste shouldn’t be exported and should stay in it’s country, for public health and environmental safety. When the author uses the word, “mismanaged” it means the incorrect handling of things, which in the article the

If you where to ask a small child in Nigeria—"what do you do everyday?" They will most likely answer, "burning e-waste and selling the minerals inside in in." Not an answer you would receive from an American children living in the Untied States. Slowly this kids are being sicken by all the dangerous substances that e-waste contains. Soon this will lead for their bodies to stop growing properly. They will eventually die. Old electronics should not be thrown away, instead recycled. Because it is not healthy for the people in the countries that try to take out the material inside of the e-waste. And because we need tougher laws. Also because you can recycle.

I am choosing to do my Business Analysis paper on e-commerce. I will explain the importance of it as well as the effects on the global economy. I will discuss the advantages of telecommunications and information technologies in a business versus those businesses without e-commerce. I will also discuss the marketing strategies involved with e-commerce and how it helps businesses. Due to the global nature of internet business, electronic commerce (e-commerce) standards have become a priority on the national and international level. While most traditional businesses are subject to local, state, and national

Advancement of technology and globalization has changed the way companies are undertaking their business operations in the current dynamic and competitive business environment. Internet access as led to usage of technology for myriad of reasons including communication, business and education (Chaffey, 2014). The business community has been changed completely by internet. Recently, internet has become an integral part of companies as a means of carrying out business. This has led to emergence of electronic business where organizations are using internet to conduct business externally or internally. E-business makes use of internet technology to entice, satisfy and keep consumers who purchase its services and products. E-business also uses internet technology to streamline its supply chain, procurement system and manufacturing in order to deliver efficiently the right services and products to the consumers. For an e-business to be a success, various internet-enabled applications such as portals, e-commerce websites, online marketplaces, customer relationship and supply chain management (Meier and Stormer, 2009).

The article “Our E-Waste Problem is Ridiculous, and Gadget Makers Aren’t Helping” by Christina Bonnington clarifies the damaging effect of dumping electronic fragments into landfills and how recycling is healthier besides the diverse types of companies that are eco-friendly. When customers change to a new phone or get an upgrade 70-80 percent of the ancient phones ends up in landfills. Throughout the years technology has gotten better it has become firmer to disassemble. Next Bonnington Shares the recycling process, and how certain companies determines if it’s worth reselling, if the electronic is not worth reselling it’s shredded so the materials inside can be recycled such as steel, copper, etc. It also can be tough to get this material out

A computers have become more mainstream, more and more operations are conducted online. From online bill pay to simple searches, as one would do with the yellow pages, to online shopping, the Internet has helped shape the way computers are used today. With the Dotcom boom of the mid-nineties and early 2000s, ecommerce and e-business really started to take off. The Internet has given way to some of the biggest economic booms in history. The invention of smartphones and tablets has allowed for consumers to have instant access to the Internet, right at one's fingertips. While e-business is becoming more mainstream, and has its advantages, e-business also has its disadvantages.

Electronic commerce has been there for a long time now, and it is a practice that is practiced by peoples from Germany, France, and the US on a daily basis. Since its inception around 40 years ago, e-commerce has continued to grow as innovations, technologies and a lot of business reverting to the use of the e-commerce. The aspect of buying and selling of goods in the early 1960s was sluggish with the traditional way of mailing of documents being replaced with the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), which would later pave a way to the electronic commerce. After the e-commerce, however, the practice was not more reliable as it still had many challenges (Tsolis, 2009). For instance, it was not easy for buyers to see products from the comfort of their homes and more so, the methods of accessing the information were limited.

Electronic business (e-business), the use of Internet-based computing and communications to execute both front-end and back-end business processes – has emerge as a key enabler to drive supply chain integration. As an overarching business concept, e-business has received increasing attention from academics and practitioners alike. E-business solutions in general are seeking to enhance supply chain effectiveness and efficiency through the automation of business processes. The adoption of e-business can result in benefits such as higher transparency, reduced transaction, manufacturing and other cost, reduced

E-commerce has become a part of human daily lives whether it is at work or in our personal lives. It is by almost everyone because of the benefits it offers

Many organizations industriously look for the opportunity to gain the competitive advantages in their industries. One of the opportunities that frequently used by the organization is the implementation of e-commerce. Thus, the e-commerce and the online sale transaction become popular in each industry. E-commerce provides many benefits, such as the saving of shopping time, the cost savings, convenience, and free from geographical constraints.

In this report, I will be discussing my chosen topic which is e-commerce. I will look at the different research methodologies & advantages and disadvantages of the use of e-commerce.

Fichter, K (2003). E-Commerce Sorting Out the Environmental Consequences . retrieved January 23 2014, from engineering.dartmouth.edu Web Site: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~d30345d/courses/IE-at-UNG/eCommerceConsequences.pdf

E- Commerce is a phenomena that is emerging rapidly between businesses all over the world, and it has affected the businesses at all sizes in many aspects.

This is a research project aimed at four different topics within e-commerce and the dynamic landscape of logistics within this emerging field. I will first be focusing on current landscape of e-commerce. Secondly the focus will be shifted to a global perspective and the difference of markets based on region. Thirdly I will cover the future trends of e-commerce, and the differences that we may see. Finally, I will present data on select countries and how they are affected by e-commerce currently and the changes that we can expect to see in the future. While researching this broad and developing topic, I have found that there are a handful of takeaways that can be seen in the entirety of this paper:

E-commerce has built a nearly perfect market because immediate and people are able to compare the offerings from numerous sellers worldwide. The growth of E-commerce has numerous advantages over the traditional stores or brick-and-mortar stores, which include greater flexibility, improved market outreach, lower cost structures, faster transactions, broader product lines, greater convenience, and customization (Srinivasan, Anderson and Ponnavolu, 2002). E-commerce provides opportunities to businesses especially in developing countries to access to the global market and reduce the transaction costs, and also helps developing countries to overcome the world economy problems (Lawrence and Tar, 2010). Since E-commerce enables all businesses from anywhere in the world to access to the global market, all people have equally chance to compete with the others. Without E-commerce, it is almost impossible for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) to compete with the large organizations due to the amount of the capitals that makes the larger organizations to hold the advantages over the smaller organizations. E-commerce is involved the use of the information technology (IT) to improve the communications and transactions with all of an organization’s stakeholders. E-commerce is also used as a new innovation strategy to raise business competitiveness,