But that hasn't stopped tech companies from coming out with a host of new phones every year, and the old models we own get discarded, sometimes even thrown away in the trash and end up in landfills.but that time period is likely to drop as folks upgrade to 5G-capable phones.said that new influx of discarded phones isn't easy to manage. "We don't have the technology to take a truck full of old iPhones, molt them down, grind them up and make new iPhones out of them.
"Smartphones and tablets are challenging," John Shegerian, CEO of ERI says. "Many of them are no longer made with screws; they're made with glue. Glue makes things very hard to take apart and recover materials from because it degrades the value of the commodity product itself." About 6.9 million metric tons of e-waste was produced in the US alone in 2019, according to Global E-Waste Monitor, a research group that tracks electronic waste. That's about the same weight as 19 Empire State Buildings. Of that, only about 15% was collected for recycling. And some of the minerals and metals being thrown away with our e-waste aren't just valuable; they're toxic.
Creating a phone that stayed relevant for four or five years instead of one or two could make a huge difference. Until phones are made to last much longer, Apple, , Samsung and others have to do more to fix this problem of e-waste, and consumers need to be more responsible when buying and discarding their devices.
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Long time ago, did a ‘piece’ on landfills in junior college, and went out to the site, and the foreman said, “don’t worry about batteries being thrown away, because people only throw out a couple a year”. Oh, okay. Go home, dawns on me, what if everyone does it?
Actually - Every single device should be thrown in a fucking landfill. Big tech is killing us all
This is like blaming oil companies for burning fossil fuels. Society has a real issue with taking responsibility.
The tech already exist it’s just not used
Anyone out there tracking this ?
Just wait till we “electrify everything” 🧐
this is terrible news Merry Christmas))
Are tech companies responsible for your garbage behavior?
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