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E-waste growing at five times the rate of recycling, UN report finds | It's predicted that we'll generate 82 million tons of e-waste in 2030
The 2024 Global E-waste Monitor report by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) warns that the annual generation...
That figure is expected to fall to just 20% by the end of the decade due to technology advances, limited repair options, shorter product life cycles, growing electronification, and inadequate e-waste management infrastructure. With less than half of the world implementing and enforcing approaches to manage the problem, this raises the alarm for sound regulations to increase collection and recycling," said Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau. Tech giants such as Apple and Samsung have been more supportive of the right-to-repair movement in recent times, helping reduce e-waste, but there's still a long way to go when it comes to improving current recycling processes.
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