The invisible waste behind our laptops and smartphones | DW | 21.12.2020

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When we think about our ecological footprint, we think about plastic wrapped around food or almost any other item. But what about the invisible waste, the one that results from the production of our tech products? DW's charlishld reports.

And as for the world's electronic devices we throw away — currently, onlyEven if 100% of these electronics were successfully recycled, it would do nothing to recoup the pollution and waste arising in manufacturing, and only make a minor difference to mining waste, said Lepawsky. The lack of e-waste recycling does, however, highlight part of the problem.

Yet Zhao said such rapid technological advancements housed in very complex and difficult to disassemble device make those goals a challenge. "Your cell phone might become obsolete in just a couple of years... That makes reuse and remanufacture almost impossible," he said."The tech companies have to make money... But at the same time, that has consequences for the environment."Guiyu in southern China was long considered the world's biggest electronics recycling site. And it was a highly polluting one at that. More than 5000 small family-run businesses recycled everything from screens to motherboards.

 

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charlishld Oder den Schmutz, der hier produziert wir ?

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