The Life of a Phone #infographic

Published by Web Desk Friday, January 30, 2015

The life of a phone’ is a descriptive but easy to digest infographic on the causes and effects of a phones life. We begin with the making of a phone, the amount of materials that go into it are astounding among many being gold, silver and even platinum! Then finally finishing up with its disposal.’ Did you know that 70% of a phone can be recycled but 56 million phones in 2008 were not recycled!' These are just some of the interesting facts contained within the infographic.

The main point of this piece is to express that we do need to do more about this problem and this can be done by recycling or sometimes holding onto our handsets slightly longer than we already do. By doing this we can reduce the effect to pollution dramatically. The real goal of releasing this infographic is to really highlight the problems faced by phones contribution to pollution and inform people because that this is a real issue and it needs to be taken seriously.

Infographic by: onrecycle

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