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I'm pretty sure the waste from cell phones pales in comparison to televisions.

Which again pales in comparison to things like cars.

Phones are tiny and lightweight. Yes let's try to recycle them better, but they're just not a very noteworthy source of waste at all. A lot of people throw away more plastic food packaging in a week.

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And let's not forget a significant part of the third world still either dumps ALL their trash into the jungle, which rains it into rivers and then into the sea. Or they burn it nightly in their gardens.

This includes places with serious income from tourism, such as Bali.

Let's not forget that a significant part of the first world ships much of their trash to the third world, often illegally.

It would be nice to save the resources that go into their batteries though.

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