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The Global E-waste Monitor 2024
March 25 , 2024
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- The world has produced a whopping 62 billion kg of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2022.
- It contained 31 billion kg of metals, 17 billion kg of plastics and 14 billion kg of other materials (minerals, glass, composite materials, etc).
- That number is projected to rise to 82 billion kg in 2030.
- In 2010, the world generated 34 billion kg of e-waste.
- Of this 62 billion, 13.8 billion kg is documented as ‘formally collected and recycled in an environmentally sound manner.
- This figure was 8 billion kg in 2010.
- 18 billion kg is handled mostly by the informal sector in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
- A whopping 58,000 kg of mercury and 45 million kg of plastics containing brominated flame retardants are released into the environment every year.
- Europe (17.6 kg), Oceania (16.1 kg) and the Americas (14.1 kg) generated the highest amount of e-waste per capita in 2022.
- Countries in Asia generate almost half of the world’s e-waste (30 billion kg).
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