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Around 50 million tons of e-waste are thrown out every year, and less than 20 percent of that is recycled. This e-waste often contains both precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum and ...

Most of the e-waste ends up in landfills, as currently, only 22.3% of e-waste is collected and recycled. The problem here is that e-waste is nonbiodegradable.

He said e-recycling options — run by either companies or local governments — aren’t always well publicized. In many cases, that’s why we end up hanging on to an obsolete laptop for 15 years.

According to the most recent e-waste report from UNITAR, only 17.4% of the world’s 110 billion pounds of e-waste generated in 2019 was properly collected and recycled.

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E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says Some of the discarded electronic devices contained mercury and Earth metals coveted by tech industry ...

Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing solid waste streams in the world, reports the World Health Organization, with an estimated 62 million tons of e-waste produced globally in 2022.