The idea of a circular economy is great in theory - just keep using devices that are already around - but it has a big problem. That’s something Michelle Chuaprasert, senior director of innovation and sustainability at Intel, is focused on. If you pay attention to big tech events, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the “circular economy.” If you’re unfamiliar, the idea is simple enough: Instead of having an end of life for devices, they’re reintroduced, recycled, or reused to keep the life cycle going. Device life cycle, and a circular economy I sat down with a few experts in the field of electronics design, sustainability, and repair to figure out why we have such a big e-waste problem - and more importantly, what we can do to solve it.īut to understand our e-waste problem, we have to look past the waste itself. E-waste contains a slew of harmful chemicals and materials, like mercury, which the UN says accounts for about 110,000 pounds of undocumented waste every year. That’s heavier than all of the adults in Europe combined, and this waste isn’t the same as the trillions of pounds of trash generated the world.
The United Nations claims the world produced 118,167,773,000 pounds of e-waste - or 53.6 million metric tons - in 2019 alone. I’m talking about the weighty problem of e-waste. No, I’m not talking about the weight of the Great Wall China (which is 116 billion pounds, in case you’re wondering).
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