130 millions de téléphones portables sont jetés chaque année, s'ils étaient recyclés, ils pourraient produire suffisamment d'énergie pour alimenter plus de 24 000 foyers par an.
320 millions de livres finissent dans des sites d'enfouissement chaque année.
5,5 millions de boîtes de DVD et de CD sont jetées à la décharge chaque année !
Que jettent le plus les Americains annuellement?
- 13.8 million tonnes de métaux
- 12.14 million tonnes de bois.
- 11.15 million tonnes de textile.
- 8.65 million tons of yard trimmings.
- 6.87 million tonnes de verre.
- 4.95 million tonnes de caoutchouc & lcuir
- 3.25 million tonnes divers.
- 2.98 million tonnes d'autres materiaux assortis.
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17 févr. 2023
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130 million cell phones are thrown away annually, if recycled they could produce enough energy to power over 24,000 homes a year.
320 million books end up in landfill sites every year.3 janv. 2023
5.5 Million boxes of DVDs and CDs get thrown into landfills each year!
2,500 tonnes of unwanted discs were thrown away last year!
Landfill sites are overflowing with GADGETS: Insatiable hunger for the latest tablets and phones produced 48.9 MILLION tonnes of waste last year
- The world produced nearly 48.9million tonnes of e-waste last year
- This works out at an average of 15lbs per person across the globe
- A UN initiative predicts this figure will rise by a third by 2017
- This would fill 40-tonne trucks covering three quarters of the Equator
- The UK produced 1.3million tonnes of electronic waste in 2012
- China put 11.1million tonnes of electronic products on the market, followed by the U.S. with 10million tonnes
