Title: E-Waste Recycling Facts and Figures
Headings: E-Waste Recycling Facts and Figures
Sustainable Businesses Electronics Recycling
E-Waste Recycling Facts and Figures
The Cost of Electronics
E-Waste Globally
E-Waste in the U.S.
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Content: Items that can be recovered from e-waste to prevent environmental damage include constituents such as plastics, metals, and glass. When compared to multinational giants, small businesses create a fraction of the e-waste that the planet must collectively manage. Nevertheless, as the burden of ecological destruction grows with each passing year, small businesses can and must be a part of the solution for processing global waste. Below are useful facts and figures pertaining to e-waste recycling, intended to inspire business owners large and small to make changes in how they process waste: The Cost of Electronics
Producing a computer along with its monitor takes at least 1.5 tons of water, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 530 pounds of fossil fuels. 2 ﻿
Compared to disposal in landfills or by incinerators, reusing or recycling computers can create 296 more jobs per year for every 10,000 tons of computer waste processed. 3 ﻿
Only 20% of e-waste is documented to have been collected and recycled, despite high-value recoverable materials such as copper and gold. 4 ﻿
Americans throw away an estimated $55 billion in e-waste material annually (more than the 2019 Gross Domestic Product of many countries.) 5 ﻿
By recycling 1 million cell phones, more than 35,000 pounds of copper, 33 pounds of palladium, 772 pounds of silver, and 75 pounds of gold can be recovered. 6 ﻿
The excessive amount of lead in e-waste, if released into the environment, could cause severe damage to human blood and kidneys, as well as central and peripheral nervous systems.