The international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum points out that 5.3 billion mobile phones will be disposed of this year.
It is understood that global trade data underlines the increasing environmental problem of "e-waste" as most individuals are more interested in keeping old phones than recycling them.
As such, valuable minerals that are not extracted from electronic waste, such as copper in wires or cobalt in rechargeable batteries must be mined.
According to Pascal Leroy, director general of WEEE, most people don't realize that items like the following have a huge global value.
He added that it is estimated that there are 16 billion mobile phones in existence worldwide, while one third are not in use anymore.
WEEE states that electrical and electronic waste will increase by 74 million tons per year by 2030 due to appliances such as washing machines, toasters, computers and global positioning system (GPS) devices.
The string, the Royal Society of Chemistry will launch an e-waste mining campaign to produce new products and prioritize global conflicts such as the war in Ukraine that endangers metal supplies.
This follows because the metal supply is an important resource that will be used for the production of new electronic devices or other equipment such as wind turbines, electric car batteries and solar panels that have low carbon, comments Magdalena Charytanowicz from WEE.
Also clarified, only 17% of the world's e-waste is properly recycled but the United Nations International Telecommunication Union will set a target to increase to 30% by next year.
In the United Kingdom (UK), there are a number of electrical goods that are not used but work worth £5.63 billion and can raise as much as £200 if sold.
