It is estimated that during the last 20 years 1.2 billion cell phones have ben sold worldwide! I have contributed to that, I've already had 4 cell phones in my life. 3 of them are in a draw at my parents house and in that same draw I have 3 battery chargers that are completely useless...
Cell phones contain several heavy metals such as lead, nickel, chromium and copper. Nowdays phones can be recycled; the battery is usually removed since they have their own recycling path. More recent models of cell phones consists of about 25% metals (copper, steel and aluminium), 20-50% plastic and the rest glass, ceramics and epoxy. Unfortunately we are not able to recycle 100% of the cell phone, it is then usually crushed and smelted.
Watch this short american movie to get a quick idea of what happens to your phone once you throw it away. Did you know that there is enough gold in 200 phones to make one golden ring?
How many cell phones have you had?
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