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'Fast tech' warning as demand for cheap gadgets heats up
A not-for-profit warns cheap, quickly disposed of gadgets could become the new "fast-fashion"
The boom could be as rapid as the growth in fast fashion with a "similar negative impact", Professor Cathrine Jansson-Boyd wrote in the announcement of the findings. The mining of materials used by tech gadgets can be environmentally damaging, and yet, experts say, such elements will be crucial as nations seek to transition to low carbon technologies. Joe Iles of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which promotes the idea of a "circular economy" based on reuse and recycling said the charity believed the problem of fast tech could be fixed.
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