{"id":13140,"date":"2013-12-15T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2013-12-15T19:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T18:02:46","slug":"e-waste-and-where-it-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13140","title":{"rendered":"E-waste and where it comes from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0 A computer circuit board can contain gold, copper, cadmium, iron, tantalum, molybdenum, palladium, lead, cobalt, tin, nickel, cerium, antimony, platinum, zinc, lanthanum, silver and mercury.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 A chip in a smartphone can contain 60 chemical elements.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 China made 1.18bn mobile phones in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 The US discarded 258.2m computers, monitors, TVs and mobile phones in 2010. Each American is responsible for an average 29.8kg of hi-tech waste; it&#8217;s 5.4kg in China and 21.82kg in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 The total annual volume of e-waste is expected to grow by 33% to 65.4m tonnes by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 The lowest levels of e-waste per person are generated in DR Congo (0.21kg) and Burkina Faso (0.81kg)<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0 10bn mobile-connected devices expected to be in use by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: UNEP, StEP, MIT, Cisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0 A computer circuit board can contain gold, copper, cadmium, iron, tantalum, molybdenum, palladium, lead, cobalt, tin, nickel, cerium, antimony, platinum, zinc, lanthanum, silver and mercury. \u25a0 A chip in a smartphone can contain 60 chemical elements. \u25a0 China made 1.18bn mobile phones in 2012. \u25a0 The US discarded 258.2m computers, monitors, TVs and mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13141,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions\/13141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}