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  • E-waste is the largest source of lead in solid waste.

  • It is estimated that 70% of heavy metals in landfills comes from e-waste.

  • E-waste can contain more than 1,000 components, many of which are toxic, including brominated flame retardants, PVC, gases, heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium), and more.

  • Greater than 85% of all e-waste goes unrecycled.

  • It’s energy efficient to rebuild old computers, but only about 2% of PCs ever find their way to a second user.

  • About 50 millions cell phones are replaced worldwide a month, and only 10% are recycled. If we recycled just a million cell phones, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking 1,368 cars off the road for a year.

  • All new steel products contain a minimum of 25% recycled content.

  • Every ton of steel recycled makes the following savings - 40% of the Water required in production, 75% of the Energy needed to make steel from virgin material, 1.28 tons of Solid Waste, Reduction of Air emissions by 86%, Reduction of Water pollution by 76%.

  • The energy saved by the steel industry through the use of recycled materials saves enough energy to power 18 million homes for a year.

  • Using scrap aluminum to make new cans consumes 95% less energy than making them from raw bauxite ore.

  • Recycling one ton of aluminum cans saves the equivalent of 1,665 gallons of gasoline.

  • Aluminum can be recycled infinitely without losing quality and the value it provides generally covers the cost required to collect and recycle it.

  • Every ton of Aluminium recycled makes the following savings - 6 tons of Bauxite, 4 tons of Chemical Product and 14MWh of Electricity.

  • Large amounts of e-waste have been sent to countries such as China, India and Kenya, where lower environmental standards and working conditions make processing e-waste more profitable. Around 80 % of the e-waste in the U.S. is exported to Asia.

  • Guiyu in China is the largest e-waste site on earth with an estimated 150,000 e-waste workers. The average workday is 16 hours and the workers make about $1.50 per day by recovering valuable metals and parts from the waste.