So, a few months ago I decided to go outside and smash all my old phones into a million pieces just for fun and since they didn’t work. I put them in a bag in my closet because I don’t have an easy way to dispose them correctly. Well, my 9 year old brother tells me that he thinks it’s killing me because of “liquid mercury” and stuff in the screens. Just asking here if that’s actually the case.
The devices are a Samsung Galaxy J3, a Samsung Galaxy A5, a Samsung Galaxy S6, and an iPod Classic.
Thanks in advance!
You’re not supposed to throw away that kind of electronic. Pretty much everything electronic (and a lit of other things like plastics and metals) you buy will have little icons of how it can be disposed of. These icons are little depections of what is covered in an items MDS (material data safety sheet)
Over time it may be possible that things could become harmful if you smashed something electronic with pcb’s and soder into tiny particles then huffed it like paint; yea you could scar your lungs if you did that every day for a couple years. So he’s not totally wrong.
The battery is the most dangerous and can catch fire/ explode. You may not die but you can burn yourself pretty bad and the fire will need to be estinguished properly or you can make it grow bigger.