Why are phones bad for the environment

As convenient as the cloud makes our lives, the physical cloud infrastructure that’s needed to power it has a huge impact on climate change. With a bigger carbon footprint than the aviation industry, data centres consume around 2% of the world’s electricity – a figure that’s expected to reach 8% by 2030.

It’s an environmental disaster, because building every phone requires the polluting extraction of irreplaceable elements like gold, cobalt or lithium . To make matters worse, the average user switches phone every two years without recycling the retired device, generating toxic waste and squandering materials.24 Şub 2020

Although the energy needed for a single internet search or email is small, approximately people, or 53.6% of the global population, now use the internet. … The carbon footprint of our gadgets, the internet and the systems supporting them account for about 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions, according to some estimates.6 Mar 2020