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Old iPhones, PCs and printers: How to recycle or dump e-waste

There’s one obvious downside to our increasing reliance on technology: electronic waste.

E-waste refers to discarded rather than recycled electronic equipment accumulating in landfills each year – a record 53.6 million metric tons of it worldwide in 2019 – according to the latest United Nations Global E-waste Monitor report. To put that into perspective, that weighs more than all the commercial airliners ever made.