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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

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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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Can we just roll it all up in a big ball and shoot it into space on a rocket? That worked great in Futurama… 😉
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  Super expensive. Better to just burn it in low income communities. /s

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