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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

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

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

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

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.

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Don’t look into that recycling either. It’s just arbitrage all the way to the acid vat man.

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