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Fair.

• kurthr 3y ago
  I'm gonna support your point. I'm not buying that 3x more phones were trashed as sold. New cell phone sales are under 2B/year. Industry hoped they would continue rising after 2016, but they've plateaued around 1.8B. Of those about 200M are still flip/dumb phones. Ownership time (in the pipeline) is increasing not falling. I don't believe 5.3B became waste unless many B people suddenly decided to do without (in 2022). That seems unlikely unless it just some random definition of watste. Sure there might even be (8-9 years of production) 16B phones laying around somewhere outside of landfill so why did they become get trashed in '22? Can we blame 3G? https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-each-year/ https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-eac...