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The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point

https://www.wired.com/story/e-waste-recycling-cant-keep-up-precious-metals/

A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less than a quarter of it.

The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point

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Some people change phones every year, or more often than that, then there's all the coffee makers, small electronics nobody thinks about (watches, radios), computers and laptops, tvs, speakers, smart lights, kitchen tools, cars, anything digital (like calipers), power tools... Depending on what you count, it could add up to ridiculous numbers for some, skewing the average