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For one thing an old desktop computer is almost entirely air by volume... Most of the reason that phones are small is that they've managed to make them without
by topaz0 3y ago
For one thing an old desktop computer is almost entirely air by volume... Most of the reason that phones are small is that they've managed to make them without having to have a lot of air inside.
- solardev 3y agoSure, but every PCB in it is still bigger than a phone. I mean, this isn't some weird hypothetical situation, like we're comparing phones to mysterious cardboard boxes or something. I'm just talking about the actual e-waste that people throw away every year, and wondering how it's changed in the phone era. I looked into a bit. Seems like no, the overall quantity (by weight) is increasing every year. There is a tiny decrease in big CRT screens, but it's offset by the steady increases in electronics of all sorts in developing countries. Phones and other small devices do make up a smaller portion of the overall weight, but overall it's still going up year after year. https://ewastemonitor.info/gem-2020/ https://ewastemonitor.info/gem-2020/ has a lot of good info.