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16/10/22 08:55 AM IST

International E-Waste Day

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  • Hoarding of small, unused, dead or broken plug-in and battery-operated products is the focus of this year’s 5th annual International E-Waste Day.
  • One out of every six electronic products in an average European household is hoarded, a survey has found.
E-waste day 
  • Slogan: ‘Recycle it all, no matter how small!’.
  • Started by: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Forum (since 2018.)
  • One out of every six electronic products in an average European household is hoarded.
  • Roughly 5.3 billion mobile/smartphones will drop out of use this year.
  • The electronics would reach a height of around 50,000 km if stacked flat and on top of each other.
  • Mobile phones/ smartphones have valuable gold, copper, silver, palladium and other recyclable components.
  • The electronics would reach a height of around 50,000 km if stacked flat and on top of each other. That’s an eighth of the distance to the moon. 
  • The top five hoarded small electronic products were (in order): small electronics and accessories (eg, headphones, remotes), small equipment (eg, clocks, irons), small IT equipment (eg, hard drives, routers, keyboards, mice), mobile and smartphones, small food preparation appliances (eg, toasters, grills). 
  • Small EEE items such as cell phones, electric toothbrushes, toasters and cameras produced worldwide will weigh an estimated total of 24.5 million tonnes — four times the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza. 
Source- DTE 

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