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1. E-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world; between 50 and 60 million tons are produced every year. 2. The e-waste discarded in 2021 alone weighs more than the Great Wall of China: the heaviest fabricated structure in the world. 3. 75-80% of e-waste is shipped to countries in Africa and Asia, where poor and marginalized ...
Global e-waste is predicted to reach 74.7 million tonnes by 2030. Image: UNU, ITU and ISWA. 1. Colourful collections. Cambridge City Council in the UK now provides bright pink bins to collect residents’ discarded small electrical goods and reduce the quantity of e-waste that ends up in regular recycling collections.
Incentives or regulation may also be required to increase e-waste recycling rates. Image: Unsplash/Alexandre Debiève. Around 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste is produced every year worldwide, according to the UN. But 83% of e-waste is not being collected, meaning there is a huge missed opportunity for the circular economy.
Constant tech upgrades have created a growing global e-waste challenge. While U.S. households now produce less e-waste by weight than in 2015, only about 35% is recycled. If devices decompose in landfills, hazardous compounds can leach into groundwater, including lead and mercury. It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile ...
Using smartphones for seven years instead of two-and-a-half saves around 100kg of greenhouse gases. Changing the way we consume is at the heart of the solution, according to the World Economic Forum. A circular vision for the e-waste sector will promote the elimination of waste and could yield up to $4.5 trillion in economic benefits by 2030.
In 2019, only 17.4% of the 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste was properly collected and recycled. With the amount of e-waste predicted to rise, the systems and incentives to manage it need to improve. Each year, the total amount of electric and electronic equipment the world uses grows by 2.5 million tonnes. Phones, radios, toys, laptops – if it ...
African nations are dealing with e-waste using policies, legislation and regulation. Their efforts can be a lesson to other nations around the world Image: set.sj for Unsplash. A record 53.6 metric tonnes of e-waste - discarded electrical and electronic equipment - was generated globally in 2019, and the quantity is still rising.
If ocean plastic pollution was one of the major environmental challenges we finally woke up to in 2018, the ebb and flow of public opinion could and should turn to electronic waste in 2019. The numbers are astounding; 50 million tonnes of e-waste are produced each year, and left unchecked this could more than double to 120 million tonnes by 2050.
Here are some stats that show how recycling has changed in recent years: 1. Of the 40 million tons of plastic waste generated in the U.S. in 2021, only 5% to 6% — or about two million tons — was recycled. 2. Between 2019 and 2020, there was a 5.7% overall decrease in plastics recovered for recycling in the U.S.
We recycle just 20% of the more than 53 million metric tonnes of e-waste generated globally each year, according to the Global E-waste Monitor. This is a challenge and a missed opportunity. Experts estimate that materials in global e-waste are worth $62 billion per year. That value currently sits untapped in landfills.