You get a new computer or smartphone what do you do with the old tech?
A new study of e-waste finds people will just throw out almost 57 and a half million tons of electronics this year. The WEEE Forum says that number will hit 74 million within the next decade.
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It's especially true in the smartphone industry, as more people upgrade their phones pretty quickly and then just toss out the old phones. That amounts to around 151 million cellphones a year, just in The U.S.
If they're not thrown out, they end up in a drawer somewhere. The average home has 11 different electronics that don't work any longer.
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