DRY ERASE WALL QUOTES FOR MARCH 2022

March: Bridge between Winter and Spring

The month of March gets its name from Martius, the first month of the ancient Roman calendar. Martius was named after Mars, the Roman god associated with war and believed to be an ancestor of the Roman people through his twin sons Romulus and Remus. According to legend, Romulus founded the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom. Mars’s month Martius was considered the start of the season for warfare, and the festivals held in his honor during the month were paralleled by other activities held in October when the season ended.

Until around 153 BC Martius was also the start of the Roman calendar year, and several religious observances in the first part of the month began as New Year’s celebrations. March is the first month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which includes Europe, North America, Asia, and a section of Africa, and it is the first month of fall in the Southern Hemisphere, which encompasses South America part of Africa, and Oceania.

One of the most iconic quotes about March says that the month “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” meaning that the wintry weather at the start of March gives way to balmy spring-like days at the end. Over the centuries, this idea has been reiterated in various forms by writers and poets, some of whom are represented below, along with other thoughts and feelings about March that may inspire you or make you laugh as you look forward to the official start of spring on the 20th. Regularly posting one or more of these quotes on your dry erase wall may uplift your mood, provide you with a touch of fun, or offer some encouragement as you go through your daily routine.

Just like March weather, these quotes are variable — different writers have widely differing experiences and memories of March. One thinks only of the month’s seemingly boundless mud and late-season snow, while another looks forward to its warmth and happiness. What do you anticipate experiencing in the month of March?

Thoughts and Feelings about March

1. March: Its motto, “Courage and strength in times of danger.”
― William Morris (British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, and printer)

2. “Only those with tenacity can march forward in March.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Ghanaian author and teacher)

3. “March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.”
― Garrison Keillor (US author, humorist, and radio personality)

4. “Poor March, it is the homeliest month of the year. Most of it is mud, every imaginable form of mud, and what isn’t mud in March is ugly late-season snow falling onto the ground in filthy muddy heaps that look like piles of dirty laundry.”
― Vivian Swift (US author and blogger), When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put

5. “March comes in with an adder’s head and goes out with a peacock’s tail.”
― Richard Lawson Gales (British priest, poet, and folklorist)

6. “Winds of March, we welcome you; there is work for you to do. Work and play and blow all day, blow the winter wind away.”
― Anonymous

7. “One Christmas, my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.”
― Mo Rocca (US journalist, humorist, and actor)

8. “March will come, and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” ― Anita Krizzan (US author)

9. “Every cold and dark phase ends and hence begins a beautiful phase of warmth and vibrance. Don’t believe? Just notice March.”
― Anamika Mishra (Indian author, travel blogger, and entrepreneur)

10. “How terrible a time is the beginning of March! In a month, there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn’t know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith.”
― Beatriz Williams (US author)

11. “March bustles in on windy feet, and sweeps my doorstep and my street.”
― Susan Reiner (US actress and producer)

12. “Match the right things in March.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Ghanaian author and teacher)

13. “March is an example of how beautiful new beginnings can be.”
― Anamika Mishra (Indian author, travel blogger, and entrepreneur)

14. “March is here. It reminds me of sports day at school, 3rd March, full day on the field.”
― Faraz (Pakistani poet and scriptwriter)

15. “I’m a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.”
― Lewis Black (US actor and comedian)

16. “When March goes on forever, and April’s twice as long, who gives a damn if spring has come, as long as winter’s gone.”
― R.L. Ruzicka (US writer)

17. “As it rains in March, so it rains in June.”
― Anonymous

18. “Flowers and colors everywhere; I am so glad that March is here.”
― Anamika Mishra (Indian author, travel blogger, and entrepreneur)

19. “Spring officially starts this month, but unfortunately, Mother Nature tends to March to the beat of her own drum.”
― Anonymous

Impressions of Nature in March

20. “Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.”
― William Shakespeare, (World-renowned English playwright and poet), The Winter’s Tale

21. “March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elf land of moonshine.”
― L. M. Montgomery (Canadian author)

22. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run, and the world would wake into itself again.”
― Neil Gaiman (English author and screenwriter)

23. “Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire; Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire.”
― William Wordsworth (English romantic poet)

24. “To welcome her the spring breathes forth Elysian sweets; March strews the Earth With violets and posies.”
― Edmund Waller (English poet and politician)

25. “A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, a wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March.”
― Robert Frost (world-renowned US poet)

26. “March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.”
― Sara Coleridge (English author and translator)

27. “Where did Gabriel get a lily, in the month of March, when the green is hardly seen on the early larch?”
― Grace James (English writer of children’s literature and folklorist)

28. “March winds, and April showers bring forth May flowers.”
― English Proverb

29. “March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring.”
― FTD (US floral delivery service)

30. “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.”
― Aldo Leopold (US author, naturalist, and environmentalist)

31. “Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away. It flows down all the hills, goes swirling down the valleys, and spills out to sea. Like so many of this earth’s elements, winter itself is soluble in water.”
― The New York Times (US newspaper)

32. “As through the poplar’s gusty spire, the March wind sweeps and sings, I sit beside the hollow fire, and dream familiar things; old memories wake, faint echoes make a murmur of dead springs.”
― Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art

33. “There is great pleasure in watching the ways in which different plants come through the ground, and February and March are the months in which that can best be seen.”
― Henry N. Ellacombe (British plantsman and author on gardening)

Dry Erase Wall

5 KEYS TO CREATING THINKING CLASSROOMS WITH DRY ERASE PAINTED WALLS

Countless educators around the world have come to realize that using individual student desks in the classroom fails to support the idea and practice of collaborative, interactive instruction. For this reason, many schools are now investing in tables as an alternative to desks for student use during the school day. While tables do promote collaboration and can open up new opportunities for learners, they share a common limitation with desks — users have to look down to work on them. When students write and draw at tables, especially during group activities, they tend to crowd over the tables, blocking the teacher’s view of the learning that needs to be observed and monitored.

However, if students work on the large non-permanent vertical surface (NPVS) of a top-quality dry erase wall for problem-solving, brainstorming, and other class-related tasks, their thinking, and learning become visible to the teacher and everyone else in the classroom. Using an NPVS such as a dry erase wall instead of a table or desk doesn’t block understanding but shares it. Of course, it’s important to note that dry erase walls alone won’t be effective in creating a dynamic thinking classroom if they aren’t combined with productive, engaging learning tasks that challenge students to reflect deeply and work collaboratively.

Creating Vibrant Learning Communities with Dry Erase Walls

Having NPVSs such as Dry Erase Walls installed in your classroom can help to develop positive, energized thinking environments and strong learning communities when you use the following techniques:
• Enthusiastically promote continuous student engagement
• Ensure that learning is always visible to both students and teachers
• Encourage easy collaboration among class members
• Give learners who have fallen behind in their lessons the chance to see successful learning strategies being used right before their eyes
• Let students engage in cautious risk-taking activities while learning that may not always succeed, but that will ultimately instill confidence
• Allow for trouble-free teacher observations that lead to more effective instruction and improved classroom management.

As mentioned, using dry erase walls to build a thinking classroom must be combined with vibrant, engaging learning activities in order to achieve successful outcomes for students and enhance their ability to reason and make thoughtful judgments.

Incorporating Dry Erase Walls Elevates the Level of a Thinking Classroom

One issue that many teachers struggle with in designing their classrooms is having sufficient wall space to conduct lessons and also post vital information needed for the teaching process. Teachers often like to use their walls to document the progress of student learning and to post course-related materials such as maps and charts, so the thought of keeping the walls open and bare for brainstorming and other group work isn’t appealing. A great way to get around this obstacle and one that’s less costly than installing traditional whiteboards or interactive whiteboards is to use premium dry erase paint – it’s brilliant!

Applying dry erase paint combined with using the innovative magnetic hanging system GoodHangups is the ideal solution. You can apply the paint to all four walls of your classroom, not just the front wall, and still, be able to write and draw freely while posting students’ work, notes, calendars, maps, and other items with GoodHangups. This system requires no drilling of holes for mounting. Each GoodHangups unit is composed of just a lightweight magnetic sticker and a magnet that can easily be placed alongside or on top of what you already have on your walls.

GoodHangups Can Take a Thinking Classroom to a New Level

You can simply mount the GoodHangups when you need to use them and take them down when you’re done. With these novel gadgets, you can also put up re-sealable plastic bags on your walls to hold low-odor dry erase markers and microfiber cloths for you and your students to use when writing and drawing during class time. Doing so can help save valuable storage space in your desk or supply cabinet.

Many teachers like to use dry erase walls in combination with GoodHangups because it allows them to convert any space into a thinking classroom space. Here students may wrestle with issues by taking multiple viewpoints, come up with informed opinions on a subject, and effectively convey their views to their peers by writing on the walls and using GoodHangups to post annotations and other items related to their work. Creating this type of dynamic, fun, and thoughtful environment for students is one of the most significant challenges teachers face, but teaching and learning in such a setting are both satisfying and enjoyable.

For the sake of variety, another option is to take your lessons into the hallway by also having dry erase paint applied to the hallway walls. In this way, you can use the hall as a supplementary learning space and also share your students’ ideas and images with the entire school community.

PBL Heightens the Impact of Dry Erase Walls in Thinking Classrooms

In order for students to effectively develop their cognitive and critical-analysis skills, they need to feel at ease with the idea of taking risks and sometimes failing in their efforts. The project-based learning (PBL) approach, by which students are able to exercise their mental muscles on genuine real-world problems, offers an optimum way to include the teaching of thinking in day-to-day course content. And what better way to do so than with dry erase walls and GoodHangups as tools for dynamic group interaction?

PBL projects may be easily written down on a dry erase wall for groups of students to examine and discuss in class and then annotate using dry erase markers, along with notes hung by GoodHangups. Through this process, a thoughtful classroom environment imbued with the “language of thinking” is created that’s useful for both students’ academic work and in their future careers. The language of thinking emphasizes reflective learning and distinguishes between reasoning that’s one-dimensional and trivial and reasoning that’s deep, carefully considered, and meaningful.

Teachers’ Questions Should Stretch Students’ Minds

Among the most basic forms of the language of thinking used in classrooms is teacher questioning. Teachers are often urged by administrators and parents to ask higher-level questions that stretch students’ mental limits and thus improve their critical thought processes.

Asking more “how” and “why” types of questions and fewer “when” and “what” types of questions is a key strategy in this approach.
But answering such questions alone has little direct impact on students’ overall ability to think. “How” and “why” questions may bring about some degree of deep thinking for a short time and could help some students develop improved cognitive abilities. However, if students are accustomed to just guessing or making quick judgments about the causes of events, they’ll undoubtedly continue to engage in shallow thinking.

Certain so-called deeper questions, such as “What did you think of that story?” or “Should humans be cloned?” are designed to get students to make personal judgments. And most young people can easily respond to such questions. But without being asked to justify and support their views, students are unlikely to mature intellectually. In a thinking classroom, the teacher’s typical comeback when a student answers a “why” or a “how” question might be “How did you arrive at that answer?” “What are your reasons for thinking that?” or “Have you considered this other option?” Such inquiries by teachers become integral parts of a thoughtful classroom culture and ensure that there is more to answering a meaningful question than a quick offhand response.

Building the classroom learning experience around “how” and “why’ questions is a necessary aspect of promoting deeper levels of thinking in students, but the answers to such questions should always be supplemented with relevant responses, thoughtful assessments, and detailed guidance on how to think about the questions’ meanings and implications.

HAVING A DRY-ERASE WALL IN YOUR CLASSROOM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Having a Dry Erase Wall in Your Classroom Can Change Your Life

No matter what your experience as a teacher may be, and whether you teach at any level from preschool to college, in a private or public school setting, applying top-quality dry-erase paint to your classroom walls can significantly change your life as an educator and also the lives of your students as learners. From doing daily lessons to brainstorming ideas for class projects to creating storyboards for the upcoming class play, the immense, durable, and easy-to-use surface of a dry-erase painted wall allows for infinite levels of personal and professional transformation.

Many Teachers Find Their Classroom Walls Need Serious Upgrades

On your first day at your current school, when you entered your classroom for the first time, you no doubt looked around and had a variety of first impressions about the room’s interior decor, ranging from “That looks good” to “Wow, this really needs some improvement!” Generally speaking, the average school, college, or university classroom is large enough to accommodate a reasonable number of students based on the school’s population, and the lighting is at least sufficient so that students and teachers can easily see what’s going on during lessons and other activities. But oftentimes, the elements of the classroom that stand out the most upon first glance and seem to need upgrading are the walls, which often become major eyesores after years of use by teachers as posting areas, and from general wear and tear.

The Use of Classroom Walls by Previous Teachers Creates Telltale Signs of Wear

The paint on classroom walls can often be lifted off and punctured in various places due to teachers’ use of sticky tape, tacks, staples, or push pins to mount countless posters, maps, charts, and other objects on the walls. In such cases, when the posted items are removed, the tape invariably rips paint from the walls, and the pins, staples, or tacks leave puncture marks that can’t be removed without the use of putty or spackling compound. When new teachers encounter such irregular and unsightly surfaces, they typically know right away that it will be hard to look at them on a daily basis and that some serious upgrading is in order.

What Can Teachers do to Remedy the Situation?

You may be a teacher who has inherited such well-worn and unattractive classroom walls from another teacher or just feel that your current walls need a significant makeover. If so, instead of getting the walls recoated with ordinary latex paint, it would be much more creative and practical to have them decorated with highly writable and easily erased premium dry-erase paint. In doing so, you’ll find that the massive open canvases of the resulting dry-erase walls will become your best and most reliable teaching tools, so you’ll be inspired to use them every day for every lesson you teach and for countless other school-related tasks.

Take Your Walls from Boring to Exciting with One Dry-Erase Paint Makeover

Dry-erase painted walls are the perfect solution to the drab look and lack of usefulness common to regular painted walls, which serve no purpose except as occasional posting areas for notices, maps, and the like, or as projector screens for video presentations. So, if you put in a request to have your classroom walls coated with dry-erase paint and get an approval, just contact the knowledgeable customer support team at ReMARKable for a consultation about your requirements. They can give you all the information you need about ordering top-quality dry-erase paint to take your classroom to a new level of functionality and aesthetic appeal.

How Long Will it Take to Get Dry-Erase Paint Installed in Your Classroom?

Once your application to have dry-erase paint installed in your classroom is approved, it will take only 45 minutes or less to apply our top-quality eco-friendly product after its two components are mixed together. Then, the dry time is just a short two days, the fastest curing time on the market for any dry-erase paint, thus allowing you to begin writing and drawing on your new surface more quickly than you could with harmful epoxy-based paints. In addition, because our environmentally friendly paint is practically odor-free and extremely low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), you and your students will never be exposed to any hazardous fumes throughout the entire time the walls are used.

The Transformative Power of Dry-Erase Walls in Teaching and Learning

One of the favorite activities of teachers who use dry-erase walls is to arrange their students in small groups in front of the walls to work on collectively solving math problems. The groups can each be given a section of the wall to write on and then be asked to show all of the calculations they make in order to arrive at a solution. Next, when the time for the activity is up, the groups can easily compare the work displayed on the walls, and you can observe how efficiently and accurately each group worked. Then grades can be given to each team if desired.

Dry-Erase Markers and Erasing Cloths can be Hung on the Walls for Easy Access

One of the concerns that teachers sometimes have is that students need dry-erase markers to write and microfiber cloths to erase with when using the walls, and checking these items out and back in all the time with the teacher can be a hassle. As an alternative, markers and cloths can easily be attached to dry-erase painted walls through the use of Ziploc bags and GoodHangups, a creative new magnetic hanging system for putting up posters, photos, notices, and other items. GoodHangups consist only of a magnetic sticker and a magnet, so they require no drilling into a dry-erase wall for mounting. Using these novel devices, you can put Ziploc bags on your walls to hold markers and microfiber cloths that students can access for writing or drawing during class time.

Students Truly Appreciate Having Dry-Erase Painted Walls in the Classroom

Students love the broad, open surfaces of dry-erase walls because they offer virtually unlimited room to express creativity and do classroom activities that would be more limited in scope if small surfaces like traditional framed whiteboards were used. Students also become highly motivated when they have the chance to engage in student-focused learning with the walls in groups and enjoy the opportunity to be in control of their work through the process. They control the words they write, the calculations they perform, and the outcomes they achieve. Also, for less outgoing students, working in small groups on a dry-erase painted wall boosts self-confidence because even though they may be shy, these students can feel a sense of accomplishment when their group solves a math problem correctly or does some other type of work that turns out well. For more outgoing students, working in groups on a dry-erase wall allows for the expression of their natural leadership abilities in having the chance to direct groups during problem-solving sessions or other types of class or extracurricular activities.

Dry-Erase Walls Make for Better and More Productive Teachers and Students

Having premium dry-erase painted walls in your classroom can quickly change your life and the lives of your students for the better. The walls offer fantastic instructional possibilities that allow you to become a more effective teacher and, in turn, allow your students to become better and more creative learners. After only a short amount of time having dry-erase walls in the classroom, you’ll no doubt get to the point where you can’t see yourself teaching without them. And you’ll soon be recommending them highly to every teacher you know as well.

Whiteboard Walls

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Of the many environmental benefits of applying ReMarkable dry erase paint, one of the greatest is that it reduces the use of electronic products such as tablets and laptops, which generate an enormous quantity of waste that has devastating effects on Earth’s environment. As the amount of e-waste dramatically increases year by year, solutions for its proper recycling have lagged far behind. Although it is essential to give e-waste items to a certified recycling company that meets strict requirements for handling these materials, many individuals and businesses fail to do so. Their old electronics end up in landfills, producing toxic results for our air, water, and soil. The main hazardous substances to be found in discarded electronic products are lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, yttrium, chromium, beryllium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, antimony trioxide, halogenated flame retardants, tin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phthalates. The presence of these and other toxins in our planet’s ecosystem can be greatly reduced through the use of whiteboard-painted walls in place of electronic devices.

Huge amounts of electronic scrap

poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. Shortages in raw materials needed to make electronics have brought forth a new industry called “urban mining.”

The start of the 21st century has witnessed the generation of huge amounts of electronic scrap, whose careless recycling in both developed and developing nations poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. As more people buy electronic gadgets, manufacturers are starting to experience shortages of the raw materials needed to make their products, so reclaiming and reusing the constituents of discarded e-products, called “urban mining,” makes good financial sense. A recent study conducted in China revealed that traditional mining of copper, gold, silver, and aluminum from ore is 13 times more costly than recovering these metals through the urban mining of electronic waste.

E-waste recycling involves taking old electronic devices apart

making it an expensive undertaking. Many companies illegally export e-waste to 3rd world nations where recycling is much cheaper but more destructive to the planet.

Proper or formal e-waste recycling typically involves taking old electronic devices apart, separating and categorizing their contents by material, and then cleaning them. Items are then mechanically shredded for further sorting through the use of advanced separation equipment. Companies that perform this service must adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and use pollution-control technologies that reduce the environmental and public health hazards of handling e-waste. All these procedures make formal recycling an expensive undertaking. As a result, many companies and countries illegally export their e-waste to developing nations where recycling methods are more cost-effective but also much more destructive to the planet.

In the unindustrialized nations where much of this illegal e-waste processing occurs, air pollution levels and concentrations of heavy metals are especially high around so-called “recycling plants,” as compared to other regions. These sites are typically backyard operations where impoverished local residents process the obsolete electronics by hand, separating them into parts to extract valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper before disposing of the rest in landfills. Some metals and plastics are melted down, and those materials that can’t be feasibly processed accumulate in massive dumps near inhabited places and waterways. Sometimes, toxic fumes are inhaled directly as metals from the parts are burned in open bonfires.

Air-quality in e-scrap yards have highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins known

due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

A typical site where these crude e-waste recycling methods are used is a cluster of villages in southeastern China known as the world’s largest dumping ground for electronic scrap from the United States. There local villagers remove solder from circuit boards over coal-fired grills, burn plastic casings from wires to extract the copper, silver, and mine gold by soaking computer chips in pools of hydrochloric acid. An air-quality study conducted in the area found that it had some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Dioxins are found around the globe in local ecosystems, where they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. These chemicals are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental issues, damage the immune system, interfere with the action of hormones, and cause cancer. Due to their potentially lethal nature, prevention or reduction of human exposure is best accomplished through direct measures, such as strict control of e-waste recycling processes to reduce the production of dioxins. Another approach is the application of ReMARKable whiteboard painted walls in schools, offices, and other facilities to reduce the use of electronic devices, which are some of their main sources.

E-waste recycling is detrimental to the health of the workers

Chronic exposure to the pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the current global recycling system is detrimental to the health of the workers who improperly handle e-waste without protection from dangerous materials and is also a direct cause of contamination in the surrounding environment. Chronic exposure to the atmospheric pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood and may be related to hypertension, abnormally low levels of blood oxygen, and other conditions in people working in or living near the sites. The trigger for the air-polluting effect of e-waste is the fact that when the material is heated by overexposure to the sun, for instance, these metals along with other toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere, causing one of e-waste’s most harmful effects.

Lead is found in almost all Electronic devices

which are becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When lead is released into the environment near these dumpsites, it can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Regarding lead, almost all electronics contain it, and today these devices are growing in number and becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When discarded, some of our most advanced technological devices represent rapidly expanding and often unregulated exposure to this highly poisonous metal, which plagued even the ancient Romans. A University of Florida environmental scientist recently studied the ecological impact of the lead found in 12 different types of electronic items commonly discarded in landfills. In a report sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he presented his finding that the items leached lead at concentrations above the EPA threshold for categorizing a type of waste as hazardous. When released into the environment near these dumpsites, lead can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, and computer chips

In large doses, arsenic is lethal along with being a known carcinogen, cited to trigger skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

The air around e-waste dumps is also high in arsenic, various acids, and other potentially toxic chemicals, including mercury and brominated flame retardants. Concerning arsenic, the reckless disposal of e-waste constitutes one of the most common sources of the inorganic form of this poison. Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, computer chips, and other electronic components, and as these parts accumulate in landfills, the arsenic present seeps into the surrounding land, affecting its soil chemistry and possibly the contents of groundwater as well. The presence of arsenic in groundwater and soil has varying effects on different organisms and may be harmful to both land and sea animals. In humans, ingesting arsenic in low doses causes irritation of the digestive system, and in large doses, it’s lethal. Arsenic is also a known carcinogen, being cited as a trigger for skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

Health risks with chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater also exist

The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Another common method of e-waste disposal is to simply burn the unusable parts after sorting. Introducing arsenic into the atmosphere in this way also has serious implications for human and animal health. For example, research by the National Cancer Institute has shown a linear relationship between inhaling arsenic and the development of lung cancer, as well as a wide range of nervous disorders. Although many states in the US have enacted landfill bans for most consumer electronics and appliances, the dangers associated with the chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater remain. The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Considering the many harmful environmental consequences related to electronic waste disposal, choosing economical, long-lasting, and eco-friendly ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint is a sensible alternative for all types of applications since it minimizes the need for laptops, tablets, and other devices, providing a highly flexible medium for conveying information and ideas in offices, schools, and other settings.

Whiteboard Walls

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Of the many environmental benefits of applying ReMarkable dry erase paint, one of the greatest is that it reduces the use of electronic products such as tablets and laptops, which generate an enormous quantity of waste that has devastating effects on Earth’s environment. As the amount of e-waste dramatically increases year by year, solutions for its proper recycling have lagged far behind. Although it is essential to give e-waste items to a certified recycling company that meets strict requirements for handling these materials, many individuals and businesses fail to do so. Their old electronics end up in landfills, producing toxic results for our air, water, and soil. The main hazardous substances to be found in discarded electronic products are lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, yttrium, chromium, beryllium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, antimony trioxide, halogenated flame retardants, tin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phthalates. The presence of these and other toxins in our planet’s ecosystem can be greatly reduced through the use of whiteboard-painted walls in place of electronic devices.

Huge amounts of electronic scrap

poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. Shortages in raw materials needed to make electronics have brought forth a new industry called “urban mining.”

The start of the 21st century has witnessed the generation of huge amounts of electronic scrap, whose careless recycling in both developed and developing nations poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. As more people buy electronic gadgets, manufacturers are starting to experience shortages of the raw materials needed to make their products, so reclaiming and reusing the constituents of discarded e-products, called “urban mining,” makes good financial sense. A recent study conducted in China revealed that traditional mining of copper, gold, silver, and aluminum from ore is 13 times more costly than recovering these metals through the urban mining of electronic waste.

E-waste recycling involves taking old electronic devices apart

making it an expensive undertaking. Many companies illegally export e-waste to 3rd world nations where recycling is much cheaper but more destructive to the planet.

Proper or formal e-waste recycling typically involves taking old electronic devices apart, separating and categorizing their contents by material, and then cleaning them. Items are then mechanically shredded for further sorting through the use of advanced separation equipment. Companies that perform this service must adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and use pollution-control technologies that reduce the environmental and public health hazards of handling e-waste. All these procedures make formal recycling an expensive undertaking. As a result, many companies and countries illegally export their e-waste to developing nations where recycling methods are more cost-effective but also much more destructive to the planet.

In the unindustrialized nations where much of this illegal e-waste processing occurs, air pollution levels and concentrations of heavy metals are especially high around so-called “recycling plants,” as compared to other regions. These sites are typically backyard operations where impoverished local residents process the obsolete electronics by hand, separating them into parts to extract valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper before disposing of the rest in landfills. Some metals and plastics are melted down, and those materials that can’t be feasibly processed accumulate in massive dumps near inhabited places and waterways. Sometimes, toxic fumes are inhaled directly as metals from the parts are burned in open bonfires.

Air-quality in e-scrap yards have highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins known

due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

A typical site where these crude e-waste recycling methods are used is a cluster of villages in southeastern China known as the world’s largest dumping ground for electronic scrap from the United States. There local villagers remove solder from circuit boards over coal-fired grills, burn plastic casings from wires to extract the copper, silver, and mine gold by soaking computer chips in pools of hydrochloric acid. An air-quality study conducted in the area found that it had some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Dioxins are found around the globe in local ecosystems, where they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. These chemicals are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental issues, damage the immune system, interfere with the action of hormones, and cause cancer. Due to their potentially lethal nature, prevention or reduction of human exposure is best accomplished through direct measures, such as strict control of e-waste recycling processes to reduce the production of dioxins. Another approach is the application of ReMARKable whiteboard painted walls in schools, offices, and other facilities to reduce the use of electronic devices, which are some of their main sources.

E-waste recycling is detrimental to the health of the workers

Chronic exposure to the pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the current global recycling system is detrimental to the health of the workers who improperly handle e-waste without protection from dangerous materials and is also a direct cause of contamination in the surrounding environment. Chronic exposure to the atmospheric pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood and may be related to hypertension, abnormally low levels of blood oxygen, and other conditions in people working in or living near the sites. The trigger for the air-polluting effect of e-waste is the fact that when the material is heated by overexposure to the sun, for instance, these metals along with other toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere, causing one of e-waste’s most harmful effects.

Lead is found in almost all Electronic devices

which are becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When lead is released into the environment near these dumpsites, it can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Regarding lead, almost all electronics contain it, and today these devices are growing in number and becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When discarded, some of our most advanced technological devices represent rapidly expanding and often unregulated exposure to this highly poisonous metal, which plagued even the ancient Romans. A University of Florida environmental scientist recently studied the ecological impact of the lead found in 12 different types of electronic items commonly discarded in landfills. In a report sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he presented his finding that the items leached lead at concentrations above the EPA threshold for categorizing a type of waste as hazardous. When released into the environment near these dumpsites, lead can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, and computer chips

In large doses, arsenic is lethal along with being a known carcinogen, cited to trigger skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

The air around e-waste dumps is also high in arsenic, various acids, and other potentially toxic chemicals, including mercury and brominated flame retardants. Concerning arsenic, the reckless disposal of e-waste constitutes one of the most common sources of the inorganic form of this poison. Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, computer chips, and other electronic components, and as these parts accumulate in landfills, the arsenic present seeps into the surrounding land, affecting its soil chemistry and possibly the contents of groundwater as well. The presence of arsenic in groundwater and soil has varying effects on different organisms and may be harmful to both land and sea animals. In humans, ingesting arsenic in low doses causes irritation of the digestive system, and in large doses, it’s lethal. Arsenic is also a known carcinogen, being cited as a trigger for skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

Health risks with chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater also exist

The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Another common method of e-waste disposal is to simply burn the unusable parts after sorting. Introducing arsenic into the atmosphere in this way also has serious implications for human and animal health. For example, research by the National Cancer Institute has shown a linear relationship between inhaling arsenic and the development of lung cancer, as well as a wide range of nervous disorders. Although many states in the US have enacted landfill bans for most consumer electronics and appliances, the dangers associated with the chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater remain. The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Considering the many harmful environmental consequences related to electronic waste disposal, choosing economical, long-lasting, and eco-friendly ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint is a sensible alternative for all types of applications since it minimizes the need for laptops, tablets, and other devices, providing a highly flexible medium for conveying information and ideas in offices, schools, and other settings.

Whiteboard Walls

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Of the many environmental benefits of applying ReMarkable dry erase paint, one of the greatest is that it reduces the use of electronic products such as tablets and laptops, which generate an enormous quantity of waste that has devastating effects on Earth’s environment. As the amount of e-waste dramatically increases year by year, solutions for its proper recycling have lagged far behind. Although it is essential to give e-waste items to a certified recycling company that meets strict requirements for handling these materials, many individuals and businesses fail to do so. Their old electronics end up in landfills, producing toxic results for our air, water, and soil. The main hazardous substances to be found in discarded electronic products are lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, yttrium, chromium, beryllium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, antimony trioxide, halogenated flame retardants, tin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phthalates. The presence of these and other toxins in our planet’s ecosystem can be greatly reduced through the use of whiteboard-painted walls in place of electronic devices.

Huge amounts of electronic scrap

poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. Shortages in raw materials needed to make electronics have brought forth a new industry called “urban mining.”

The start of the 21st century has witnessed the generation of huge amounts of electronic scrap, whose careless recycling in both developed and developing nations poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. As more people buy electronic gadgets, manufacturers are starting to experience shortages of the raw materials needed to make their products, so reclaiming and reusing the constituents of discarded e-products, called “urban mining,” makes good financial sense. A recent study conducted in China revealed that traditional mining of copper, gold, silver, and aluminum from ore is 13 times more costly than recovering these metals through the urban mining of electronic waste.

E-waste recycling involves taking old electronic devices apart

making it an expensive undertaking. Many companies illegally export e-waste to 3rd world nations where recycling is much cheaper but more destructive to the planet.

Proper or formal e-waste recycling typically involves taking old electronic devices apart, separating and categorizing their contents by material, and then cleaning them. Items are then mechanically shredded for further sorting through the use of advanced separation equipment. Companies that perform this service must adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and use pollution-control technologies that reduce the environmental and public health hazards of handling e-waste. All these procedures make formal recycling an expensive undertaking. As a result, many companies and countries illegally export their e-waste to developing nations where recycling methods are more cost-effective but also much more destructive to the planet.

In the unindustrialized nations where much of this illegal e-waste processing occurs, air pollution levels and concentrations of heavy metals are especially high around so-called “recycling plants,” as compared to other regions. These sites are typically backyard operations where impoverished local residents process the obsolete electronics by hand, separating them into parts to extract valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper before disposing of the rest in landfills. Some metals and plastics are melted down, and those materials that can’t be feasibly processed accumulate in massive dumps near inhabited places and waterways. Sometimes, toxic fumes are inhaled directly as metals from the parts are burned in open bonfires.

Air-quality in e-scrap yards have highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins known

due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

A typical site where these crude e-waste recycling methods are used is a cluster of villages in southeastern China known as the world’s largest dumping ground for electronic scrap from the United States. There local villagers remove solder from circuit boards over coal-fired grills, burn plastic casings from wires to extract the copper, silver, and mine gold by soaking computer chips in pools of hydrochloric acid. An air-quality study conducted in the area found that it had some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Dioxins are found around the globe in local ecosystems, where they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. These chemicals are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental issues, damage the immune system, interfere with the action of hormones, and cause cancer. Due to their potentially lethal nature, prevention or reduction of human exposure is best accomplished through direct measures, such as strict control of e-waste recycling processes to reduce the production of dioxins. Another approach is the application of ReMARKable whiteboard painted walls in schools, offices, and other facilities to reduce the use of electronic devices, which are some of their main sources.

E-waste recycling is detrimental to the health of the workers

Chronic exposure to the pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the current global recycling system is detrimental to the health of the workers who improperly handle e-waste without protection from dangerous materials and is also a direct cause of contamination in the surrounding environment. Chronic exposure to the atmospheric pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood and may be related to hypertension, abnormally low levels of blood oxygen, and other conditions in people working in or living near the sites. The trigger for the air-polluting effect of e-waste is the fact that when the material is heated by overexposure to the sun, for instance, these metals along with other toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere, causing one of e-waste’s most harmful effects.

Lead is found in almost all Electronic devices

which are becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When lead is released into the environment near these dumpsites, it can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Regarding lead, almost all electronics contain it, and today these devices are growing in number and becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When discarded, some of our most advanced technological devices represent rapidly expanding and often unregulated exposure to this highly poisonous metal, which plagued even the ancient Romans. A University of Florida environmental scientist recently studied the ecological impact of the lead found in 12 different types of electronic items commonly discarded in landfills. In a report sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he presented his finding that the items leached lead at concentrations above the EPA threshold for categorizing a type of waste as hazardous. When released into the environment near these dumpsites, lead can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, and computer chips

In large doses, arsenic is lethal along with being a known carcinogen, cited to trigger skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

The air around e-waste dumps is also high in arsenic, various acids, and other potentially toxic chemicals, including mercury and brominated flame retardants. Concerning arsenic, the reckless disposal of e-waste constitutes one of the most common sources of the inorganic form of this poison. Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, computer chips, and other electronic components, and as these parts accumulate in landfills, the arsenic present seeps into the surrounding land, affecting its soil chemistry and possibly the contents of groundwater as well. The presence of arsenic in groundwater and soil has varying effects on different organisms and may be harmful to both land and sea animals. In humans, ingesting arsenic in low doses causes irritation of the digestive system, and in large doses, it’s lethal. Arsenic is also a known carcinogen, being cited as a trigger for skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

Health risks with chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater also exist

The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Another common method of e-waste disposal is to simply burn the unusable parts after sorting. Introducing arsenic into the atmosphere in this way also has serious implications for human and animal health. For example, research by the National Cancer Institute has shown a linear relationship between inhaling arsenic and the development of lung cancer, as well as a wide range of nervous disorders. Although many states in the US have enacted landfill bans for most consumer electronics and appliances, the dangers associated with the chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater remain. The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Considering the many harmful environmental consequences related to electronic waste disposal, choosing economical, long-lasting, and eco-friendly ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint is a sensible alternative for all types of applications since it minimizes the need for laptops, tablets, and other devices, providing a highly flexible medium for conveying information and ideas in offices, schools, and other settings.

Dry Erase Wall Paint

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Of the many environmental benefits of applying ReMarkable dry erase paint, one of the greatest is that it reduces the use of electronic products such as tablets and laptops, which generate an enormous quantity of waste that has devastating effects on Earth’s environment. As the amount of e-waste dramatically increases year by year, solutions for its proper recycling have lagged far behind. Although it is essential to give e-waste items to a certified recycling company that meets strict requirements for handling these materials, many individuals and businesses fail to do so. Their old electronics end up in landfills, producing toxic results for our air, water, and soil. The main hazardous substances to be found in discarded electronic products are lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, yttrium, chromium, beryllium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, antimony trioxide, halogenated flame retardants, tin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phthalates. The presence of these and other toxins in our planet’s ecosystem can be greatly reduced through the use of whiteboard-painted walls in place of electronic devices.

Huge amounts of electronic scrap

poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. Shortages in raw materials needed to make electronics have brought forth a new industry called “urban mining.”

The start of the 21st century has witnessed the generation of huge amounts of electronic scrap, whose careless recycling in both developed and developing nations poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. As more people buy electronic gadgets, manufacturers are starting to experience shortages of the raw materials needed to make their products, so reclaiming and reusing the constituents of discarded e-products, called “urban mining,” makes good financial sense. A recent study conducted in China revealed that traditional mining of copper, gold, silver, and aluminum from ore is 13 times more costly than recovering these metals through the urban mining of electronic waste.

E-waste recycling involves taking old electronic devices apart

making it an expensive undertaking. Many companies illegally export e-waste to 3rd world nations where recycling is much cheaper but more destructive to the planet.

Proper or formal e-waste recycling typically involves taking old electronic devices apart, separating and categorizing their contents by material, and then cleaning them. Items are then mechanically shredded for further sorting through the use of advanced separation equipment. Companies that perform this service must adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and use pollution-control technologies that reduce the environmental and public health hazards of handling e-waste. All these procedures make formal recycling an expensive undertaking. As a result, many companies and countries illegally export their e-waste to developing nations where recycling methods are more cost-effective but also much more destructive to the planet.

In the unindustrialized nations where much of this illegal e-waste processing occurs, air pollution levels and concentrations of heavy metals are especially high around so-called “recycling plants,” as compared to other regions. These sites are typically backyard operations where impoverished local residents process the obsolete electronics by hand, separating them into parts to extract valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper before disposing of the rest in landfills. Some metals and plastics are melted down, and those materials that can’t be feasibly processed accumulate in massive dumps near inhabited places and waterways. Sometimes, toxic fumes are inhaled directly as metals from the parts are burned in open bonfires.

Air-quality in e-scrap yards have highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins known

due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

A typical site where these crude e-waste recycling methods are used is a cluster of villages in southeastern China known as the world’s largest dumping ground for electronic scrap from the United States. There local villagers remove solder from circuit boards over coal-fired grills, burn plastic casings from wires to extract the copper, silver, and mine gold by soaking computer chips in pools of hydrochloric acid. An air-quality study conducted in the area found that it had some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Dioxins are found around the globe in local ecosystems, where they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. These chemicals are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental issues, damage the immune system, interfere with the action of hormones, and cause cancer. Due to their potentially lethal nature, prevention or reduction of human exposure is best accomplished through direct measures, such as strict control of e-waste recycling processes to reduce the production of dioxins. Another approach is the application of ReMARKable whiteboard painted walls in schools, offices, and other facilities to reduce the use of electronic devices, which are some of their main sources.

E-waste recycling is detrimental to the health of the workers

Chronic exposure to the pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the current global recycling system is detrimental to the health of the workers who improperly handle e-waste without protection from dangerous materials and is also a direct cause of contamination in the surrounding environment. Chronic exposure to the atmospheric pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood and may be related to hypertension, abnormally low levels of blood oxygen, and other conditions in people working in or living near the sites. The trigger for the air-polluting effect of e-waste is the fact that when the material is heated by overexposure to the sun, for instance, these metals along with other toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere, causing one of e-waste’s most harmful effects.

Lead is found in almost all Electronic devices

which are becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When lead is released into the environment near these dumpsites, it can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Regarding lead, almost all electronics contain it, and today these devices are growing in number and becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When discarded, some of our most advanced technological devices represent rapidly expanding and often unregulated exposure to this highly poisonous metal, which plagued even the ancient Romans. A University of Florida environmental scientist recently studied the ecological impact of the lead found in 12 different types of electronic items commonly discarded in landfills. In a report sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he presented his finding that the items leached lead at concentrations above the EPA threshold for categorizing a type of waste as hazardous. When released into the environment near these dumpsites, lead can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, and computer chips

In large doses, arsenic is lethal along with being a known carcinogen, cited to trigger skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

The air around e-waste dumps is also high in arsenic, various acids, and other potentially toxic chemicals, including mercury and brominated flame retardants. Concerning arsenic, the reckless disposal of e-waste constitutes one of the most common sources of the inorganic form of this poison. Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, computer chips, and other electronic components, and as these parts accumulate in landfills, the arsenic present seeps into the surrounding land, affecting its soil chemistry and possibly the contents of groundwater as well. The presence of arsenic in groundwater and soil has varying effects on different organisms and may be harmful to both land and sea animals. In humans, ingesting arsenic in low doses causes irritation of the digestive system, and in large doses, it’s lethal. Arsenic is also a known carcinogen, being cited as a trigger for skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

Health risks with chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater also exist

The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Another common method of e-waste disposal is to simply burn the unusable parts after sorting. Introducing arsenic into the atmosphere in this way also has serious implications for human and animal health. For example, research by the National Cancer Institute has shown a linear relationship between inhaling arsenic and the development of lung cancer, as well as a wide range of nervous disorders. Although many states in the US have enacted landfill bans for most consumer electronics and appliances, the dangers associated with the chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater remain. The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Considering the many harmful environmental consequences related to electronic waste disposal, choosing economical, long-lasting, and eco-friendly ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint is a sensible alternative for all types of applications since it minimizes the need for laptops, tablets, and other devices, providing a highly flexible medium for conveying information and ideas in offices, schools, and other settings.

Dry Erase Walls