{"id":19881,"date":"2020-07-02T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/global-e-waste-surging-up-21-in-5-years\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:21:00","slug":"global-e-waste-surging-up-21-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/global-e-waste-surging-up-21-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Global e-waste surging: Up 21% in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Global e-waste surging: Up 21% in 5 years<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n E-waste — discarded products with a battery or plug — will reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost a doubling of e-waste in just 16 years. This makes e-waste the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled mainly by higher consumption rates of electric and electronic equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair. Credit: Yassyn Sidki
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A record 53.6 million metric tons (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21% in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020.<\/p>\n

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The new report also predicts global e-waste\u2014discarded products with a battery or plug\u2014will reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost a doubling of e-waste in just 16 years. This makes e-waste the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled mainly by higher consumption rates of electric and electronic equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair.<\/p>\n

Only 17.4% of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. This means that gold, silver, copper, platinum and other high-value, recoverable materials conservatively valued at US $57 billion\u2014a sum greater than the Gross Domestic Product of most countries\u2014were mostly dumped or burned rather than being collected for treatment and reuse.
\nAccording to the report, Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019, some 24.9 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1 Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9 Mt and 0.7 Mt respectively.
\nFor perspective, last year’s e-waste weighed substantially more than all the adults in Europe, or as much as 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2, enough to form a line 125 km long.<\/p>\n

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\n Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019, some 24.9 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1 Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9 Mt and 0.7 Mt respectively. Credit: UN Global eWaste Monitor
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E-waste is a health and environmental hazard, containing toxic additives or hazardous substances such as mercury, which damages the human brain and\/or coordination system.
\nOther key findings from the Global E-waste Monitor 2020:<\/p>\n