Weird Butterfly Ceremony

課文：

Gadgets don’t seem to last long these days. There’s pressure to upgrade everything from TVs to computers to smartphones on a frequent basis. Having cutting-edge gadgets is fine, but the question remains: What happens to all of the old devices? Unfortunately, a lot of them end up as e-waste, with up to 50 million tons of e-waste filling garbage dumps around the world each year. But a new industry is focusing on recycling such gadgets and offers two benefits. First, recycling electronic gadgets keeps them out of garbage dumps. Second, new recycling techniques can extract several kinds of precious metals contained in gadgets.

gadget：小機件、小器具（=device、machine）
upgrade：升級
frequent：頻繁的
cutting-edge：最前線、尖端（=new）
remain：繼續存在
unfortunately：不幸地（= bad thing）
end up：結果成為
waste：廢料
up to：不大於
ton：噸
fill：填充
dump：垃圾場
industry：行業
technique：技術、技巧
extract：提煉、提取
precious metal：貴金屬
contain：包含

The dangers of e-waste

One of the main concerns with e-waste is that most electronic devices contain toxic substances such as lead or mercury. Computer monitors, for example, may contain around 6 percent lead by weight. If monitors are left in a dump, these substances could eventually leak into the ground or water supply. Equally troubling, large amounts of e-waste are illegally transported to Third-World countries, where poor youths risk their health to extract the precious metals found within.

concern：關於
electronic device：電子裝置
toxic：有毒的
substance：物質
lead：鉛
mercury：水銀
eventually：最終
leak：漏、滲
equally：同樣地
illegally：非法的
risk：冒風險

文法：
the question remains = we still haven’t answered or solved this problem（問題依然存在）

特別補充：
dealing with：處理
out of：用…作材料
groundwater：地下水
first world problem：第一世界的嘮叨