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How People Generate Different Types of Waste - E-Waste

Mobile phones have become essential tools for communication, education, work and more. However, as phones are replaced by newer models, vast amounts of electronic waste is generated. Each year, around 250 million mobile phones are discarded, but less than 20% are recycled. Mobile phone waste represents a large portion of the world's 40 million tons of annual electronic waste, and includes broken screens, batteries and discarded phones themselves. Improper use and mishandling of phones can also lead to damage and early obsolescence.

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How People Generate Different Types of Waste - E-Waste

Mobile phones have become essential tools for communication, education, work and more. However, as phones are replaced by newer models, vast amounts of electronic waste is generated. Each year, around 250 million mobile phones are discarded, but less than 20% are recycled. Mobile phone waste represents a large portion of the world's 40 million tons of annual electronic waste, and includes broken screens, batteries and discarded phones themselves. Improper use and mishandling of phones can also lead to damage and early obsolescence.

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How People Generate Different Types of Waste

- E-waste -

Mobile phones are the most widely used gadgets in These mobile phones can always be seen everywhere at Electronic waste is one of the largest contributors of
the society at present time. These play a huge role on any time. They are primarily used for communications garbage in the world. There are 40 million tons of
humans’ everyday living. A mobile phone is a portable to reach and connect to people even if they are so far electronic waste every year, worldwide. Mobile
handheld electronic device that has many functions. away from each other. Nowadays, phones are used for phone waste is a large part of electronic waste. As
It allows you to communicate with other people education like in online class and searching for newly developed smartphones show up and existing
through voice, message and mails (emails), connects information, work purposes, and more. Sometimes phones are destroyed, many cellphone users
to the internet to search for information, capture people became abusive in using phones and discarded their phones. According to statistics, every
pictures and record videos through the camera. mishandling them. An example of misusing our phones year, up to 250 million mobile phones are replaced
Phones are considered to be advantageous and useful is the using of these while charging. This could damage worldwide by new models and only less than 20% of
tools utilized on every aspects of life like in recreation, the battery and our phone itself. Dropping our phone, these unwanted phones are being recycled. Most
work life, personal and social life, education and letting liquid touch it carelessly, and other unfortunate mobile phone waste are mostly broken LED screens,
others. Also, they could replace computers and events could destroy these gadgets. Also, overtime, bloated batteries and simply the phone itself.
laptops because tasks that are done in computers can phones could not function anymore because of the
be carried out by the use of these phones. length of years these were used and maybe it could be
mobile issues.

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