Extend phone lifetimes to cut environmental threat | opinion
. Second place went to William Stoodley at Clifton College and third place to Nina Aswani from the London Academy of Excellence.including used and discarded electronic devices. This adds up to 53.6mn tonnes worldwide, an alarming quantity that will only continue to grow as global consumption increases.
There has to be serious investment in improving the world’s recycling facilities © Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Much of the waste exported to developing countries is burnt or dissolved in acid to recover valuable materials such as gold, copper, cobalt and neodymium. This process exposes workers to contaminants such as lead and mercury, which havework in the informal waste sector, causing both them and an unknown number of unborn children to be affected by toxic chemicals.
There are also blockages to the repair of broken devices. Apple, as well as many of its rivals, has a system of “licensed service provision” which controls the shops authorised to carry out repairs. Devices which could be fixed are thrown out, accelerating an already unsustainable rate of electronics consumption. Manufacturers need to make their products last longer.
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