Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
that their innards contain 50,000 tonnes of copper, 500 tonnes of silver and 100 tonnes of gold. There's also enough cobalt to build batteries for ten million electric vehicles.The GSMA points out that having all those phones lying around is jolly wasteful, given that hauling new metals out of the ground and refining them is a messy and energy-intensive business.
Which doesn't sound like it will make that big a dent in the mountain of unused phones. There's no mention of the first target being binding – or even measured. And of course a 20 percent target leaves plenty of dead devices out there. The second goal also has outs – not least because transferring a device to a recycler is no guarantee it will be recycled.
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