According to the International Forum for Electrical and Electronic Wastes, 5. This year, waste dots will be the doom of 3 billion smartphones.
According to statistics provided by the organisation, there are 16 billion smartphones in use worldwide, with around a third of them being abandoned.
According to the organisation, these phones often wind up outside of the service in drawers or being disposed of in landfills because they include precious metal components like gold, copper, silver, and albadium and are rarely recycled or used.
“We’ll send those phones to China or the Congo for recycling if we can’t recycle the parts in them ourselves.
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Leroy emphasised this “These components in phones and electrical appliances have a high value, and when combined globally, they amount to enormous sums. ”
“Solar panels, electric car batteries, wind turbines, and other equipment may all be produced using the resources that these gadgets supply, making them essential for the green digital transition to low carbon communities.
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The International Forum for Electrical and Electronic Equipment Garbage predicts that by 2030, the combined volume of these phones and other electrical and electronic waste will reach 74 million tonnes yearly.
Experts predict that 5 billion cellphones would be discarded in 2022.
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