During the 2014 landfill emissions 41, 8 million tons of e-waste. In 2018 48 million tons of throw Bashny.Net

UN published a report saying that in 2014 the mass vyroshennyh electronic waste, which include devices with an electric cord and batteries was 41, 8 million tons. In 2018 in landfills will add 48 million tons, сообщают The report . It is about 250 loaded container.

The cost of the materials from which the manufactured device discarded in landfills, is about 50 billion dollars: among them gold, silver, copper, iron.




The Chinese city Guiyyu, the world's largest place of concentration and processing of e-waste. i>

In 2013, the organization StEP Initiative presented online card , displays the number of e-waste per capita. Experts have suggested an increase in waste up to 65, 4 million tons per year until 2017. The most important "producers" of this type of waste organization called the United States and China.

Forecast StEP Initiative has not been confirmed. The report, which was presented by the United Nations on April 19, the US and China once again called on the leaders of the mass ejected technology, and the per capita leader Norway: a resident of that country emits 28 pounds of electronics a year. Total weight of waste for 2014 was 41, 8 million tons, and in 2018 the UN predicts the clogging of the planet 48 million tons of new debris.

Despite the rapid growth of mobile devices and the frequency with which people change them, 60% of waste account for household appliances. Every year, people throw 18, 8 million tons of refrigerators, washing machines and stoves - it is 470 thousand trucks with trailers loaded with a medium-sized refrigerator.

Only 16% of e-waste is processed for recycling. In the world there are entire cities that are doing it. One of them - Chinese Guiyyu , which as of 2013 was the largest in the world a place of concentration of electronic waste of human life . In the city live 150 thousand people and operates 5, 5000 businesses, mostly family workshops, taking apart the garbage piece by piece, melted metals and resell them. Every day through the city runs about a hundred trucks loaded with phones, computers and other electronics.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/249272/