Research: in 2022, more than 5 billion smartphones will be thrown into landfill - this is a column about 50 thousand kilometers high or 1/8 of the distance to the moon
On International E-Waste Day, the non-profit organization WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Forum released an interesting report on e-waste this year and beyond.
What to expectBased on global sales statistics, WEEE analysts have predicted that 5.3 billion smartphones will become electronic waste this year. These are old phones that are no longer used, that are stored in drawers, closets, garages, or thrown into garbage cans as ordinary waste. If we take into account the average thickness of a smartphone of 9 mm, then from this waste we get a stack almost 50 thousand kilometers high. It is also 1/8 of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
At the same time, recycling could make it possible to extract valuable components from gadgets, such as gold, silver, copper, palladium and various parts, in order to then make new smartphones out of them. Manufacturing companies are trying to recycle waste, but their efforts are not enough: for example, Samsung last year recycled only 0.0019% of phones sold since 2015.
Today, there are a total of about 16 billion phones around the world. But only in Europe, almost every third device has not been used for a long time and simply collects dust. According to WEEE forecasts, by 2030, about 74 million tons of electronics and electrical equipment will go to landfill annually - from washing machines and toasters to tablet computers and global positioning system (GPS) devices.
Source: Digital Trends
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