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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort through electronic waste beside the shredder at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort through electronic waste beside the shredder at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort through electronic waste beside the shredder at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort through electronic waste beside the shredder at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Shredded steel is moved on a conveyor belt to the steel pit at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort through electronic waste beside the shredder at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
© Philip Cheung / Guardian / eyevine
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Electronics are loaded on to the shredder’s conveyor belt at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Electronics are taken up to the shredder on a conveyor belt at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort out e-waste at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
© Philip Cheung / Guardian / eyevine
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
The shredder (background) at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
The shredder (background) at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
© Philip Cheung / Guardian / eyevine
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Employees sort out e-waste at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
© Philip Cheung / Guardian / eyevine
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Piles of shredded steel at the steel pit in the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Piles of shredded steel at the steel pit in the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
© Philip Cheung / Guardian / eyevine
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
Piles of shredded steel at the steel pit in the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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DUKAS_156237532_EYE
'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
An employee gathers cords at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
A noticeboard with parts that have been pinned as visual aids for employees at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
A noticeboard with parts that have been pinned as visual aids for employees at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
TV’s are piled on pallets at the ERI (Electronic Recyclers International) Recycling Facility. Fresno, Calafornia - May 23, 2023:
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'I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded': the truth about our electronic waste
In a giant factory in California, thousands of screens, PCs and other old or unwanted gadgets are picked apart for materials. But what about the billions of other defunct (or not) devices?
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (better known by its unfortunate acronym, Weee) is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. Electronic waste amounted to 53.6m tonnes in 2019, a figure growing at about 2% a year. Consider: in 2021, tech companies sold an estimated 1.43bn smartphones, 341m computers, 210m TVs and 548m pairs of headphones. And that's ignoring the millions of consoles, sex toys, electric scooters and other battery-powered devices we buy every year.
Globally, only 17.4% of electronic waste is recycled. Between 7% and 20% is exported, 8% thrown into landfills and incinerators in the global north, and the rest is unaccounted for. Yet Weee is, by weight, among the most precious waste there is. One piece of electronic equipment can contain 60 elements, from copper and aluminium to rarer metals such as cobalt and tantalum, used in everything from motherboards to gyroscopic sensors. A typical iPhone, for example, contains 0.018g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and a tiny fraction of platinum. Multiply by the sheer quantity of devices and the impact is vast: a single recycler in China, GEM, produces more cobalt than the country’s mines each year. The materials in our e-waste - including up to 7% of the world's gold reserves - are worth £50.9bn a year.
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Vending machine to suck CO2 from the atmosphere.
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A vending machine that absorbs harmful CO2 and recycles it into fertiliser and concrete has been unveiled.
A special material absorbs the CO2 and uses it to cool or warm the products as well as collecting it for recycling.
The annual CO2 absorption per unit is expected to be the equivalent to the annual absorption of about 20 mature cedar trees
It has been developed by Tokyo-based Japanese soft drinks company Asahi..
From June about 30 units will be installed in various places both indoors where CO2 concentration is high, as well as outdoors.
These will be used initially by the company to compare and verify the amount of CO2 absorption and absorption speed.
Full-scale deployment is scheduled from 2024.
OPS: The CO2 absorbing vending machine. Around 30 are being installed at various locations in Japan from June.
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Enorme Nachfrage nach recycelten Fässern aufgrund des gestiegenen Heizölpreises in Bangladesch
August 21, 2022, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Colorful oil drums are stacked in rows by workers in a warehouse in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The colorful containers which can hold about 250 liters of oil are used for storing fuels including petrol, diesel and octane. Even as people are grappling with rising inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the Bangladesh government has raised fuel oil prices as much as 51.68%, citing a global hike. Because of the increase in fuel oil price, There is a huge demand for this barrels as Recycling of barrels will cut some of the costs incurred. More than 1,000 barrels are sorted through and piled up every day depending on whether they are metal or plastic. The site holds up to 20,000 barrels. The empty barrels are unloaded from lorries at the site before being stored and returned to oil companies to be reused. Workers here earn £5 a day. (Credit Image: © Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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'We haven't been given the money to get it right': why so much of the UK is rubbish at recycling
Despite our commitment to sustainable living, domestic recycling is getting worse. Who - or what - is to blame?
Locals visit the Green recycling centre in Brighton. But the council is in the bottom 40 for recycling in England.
The Green recycling centre (run by volunteers) in Brighton that encourages people to come in and recycle their household goods as well as buy second-hand and recycled items. Sussex, 7/7/22
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
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A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
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Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials.This shows the planned vineyard.
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
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Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
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Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials.This shows the planned vineyard.
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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DUK10147938_011
FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
Ferrari Press Agency
Border 1
Ref 13699
08/02/2022
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader
A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.
OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials.This shows the planned vineyard.
Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)
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