Guiyu, the global capital of e-waste, has the highest ever recorded levels of dioxins
Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world
More than a billion cell phones are sold every year
There are more rare earth metals in land filled electronics than in all known global reserves
One Third of the silver and copper mined globally is used to produce electronics
$12 Billion is spent annually to identify new virgin deposits
Every day, US consumers dispose of Enough TVs to fill more than 600 trucks
In 2009, More Than 80% of US consumere-waste was land filled
Guiyu, China receives 4000 tons of e-waste every hour
Less than 15% of global e-waste undergoes any form of recycling
Every day, US consumers dispose of enough cell phones to cover over 50 football fields
Less Than 1% of rare earth metals are currently recycled
Copper disposed annually in e-waste is equivalent to a third of global copper production
81% of the energy a computer consumes comes from its production rather thanits use
1 ton of cell phones contains as much gold as 70 tons of gold ore
70% of all toxic metals in US landfills come from e-waste
Sourcing metals for electronics produces more than 30 million tons of CO2 every year
80% of all platinum group metal & rare earth mining took place in the last 30 Years
Recycling metals requires 10% of the energy used for mining metals