PARIS: Major technology firms including Dell<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Google<\/a> have joined a new initiative aimed at creating a circular economy for electronics by 2030, amid mounting alarm over the world's ballooning e-waste<\/a> problem.

The project comes as humanity's insatiable appetite for smartphones, household appliances and electronic car parts combined with the short lifespans of many tech products has made
e-waste<\/a> the planet's fastest growing refuse.

According to the
United Nations<\/a>, more than 50 million tonnes of electronic waste was discarded in 2019, with the vast majority ending up in landfill and on scrap heaps.

Those products contain gold, silver, copper and platinum as well as highly-prized rare earth metals.

With only 17 per cent of products recycled, the UN estimates that materials worth more than $55 billion (50 billion euros) are being wasted every year.

Meanwhile, more must be mined to make new products, sparking environmental and human rights fears.

The new initiative, led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the
World Economic Forum<\/a>, has outlined a vision for how industry might break this habit.

But this is only a first step and does not include financial commitments or firm targets, the groups caution.

Companies taking part include Cisco,
Dell<\/a> Technologies, Glencore, Google<\/a>, KPMG International, Microsoft<\/a>, Sims Limited and Vodafone.

\"We can't continue to assume that we can produce as many products as we want without thinking about what happens at end of life,\" said Brendan Edgerton of the WBCSD, adding that electronics involved include \"everything with a plug or a battery\".

Ideas range from designing products so that precious metals are easier to extract, to creating an \"eco label\" system, but Edgerton said the initial step was more modest -- coming up with a shared idea of what a circular economy might look like.

\"What we're trying to do is make sure that when one company is going in one direction, another company isn't going in a different direction with the same goal,\" he told AFP.

Dell has said half of the materials it uses will be \"recycled or renewable\" by 2030.

\"But as an industry, we need to move faster,\" said Michael Murphy, Dell Vice President of Product Development Engineering.

In a separate announcement in October, Apple said its newest iPhones would be produced using completely recycled rare earth materials.

\"&lt;p&gt;With
With only 17 per cent of products recycled, the UN estimates that materials worth more than $55 billion (50 billion euros) are being wasted every year.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
'New normal'<\/strong>
Just over half of all emissions in the IT sector come from the use of equipment and data centres, with the rest from production, said James Pennington of the WEF.

\"One of the key ways to bring down those emissions and meet net-zero targets is through a more circular economy -- reusing, recycling and extending the life of products,\" he said.

A briefing from the European Environment Agency last year said research into smartphones, televisions, washing machines and vacuum cleaners showed that their lifespan was more than two years shorter than either their designed or desired lifetimes.

There are nearly 700 million old \"hibernating\" mobile phones in Europe alone, amounting to some 14,920 tonnes of gold, silver, copper, palladium, cobalt and lithium with a value of over a billion euros.

Pennington said that while stronger waste regulations are crucial, more specialised recycling facilities are also needed to process the sheer volume of e-waste.

There are also concerns about creating incentives without ensuring that products are actually recycled, after illegal dumping of household plastics, particularly in Southeast Asia, has caused severe pollution.

The idea of an eco label, already being considered in Europe, could help people choose green electricals, but Edgerton said recycling principles would need to become the \"new normal\" to make a difference.

\"For this to truly be at the scale that it needs to be, it needs to be available to everyday consumers, this can't be an upper class option to tick a green box, or we'll find ourselves in a situation that's not too different from today,\" he said.


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再使用和再回收:谷歌、微软和戴尔合力解决电子垃圾危机到2030年

短寿命的许多科技产品使电子垃圾这个星球上增长最快的垃圾。

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巴黎:主要科技公司等戴尔,微软谷歌加入了一个新计划,旨在为电子产品,到2030年创建一个循环经济日益担忧世界不断膨胀的电子垃圾问题。

项目是人类永不满足的胃口智能手机,家用电器和电子汽车零部件结合许多高科技产品的寿命短电子垃圾地球上增长最快的垃圾。

根据联合国,超过5000万吨电子垃圾丢弃在2019年,绝大多数最终在垃圾和废料堆。

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这些产品含有金、银、铜和铂以及推崇的稀土金属。

只有17%的产品回收,联合国估计材料价值超过550亿美元(500亿欧元)每年都被浪费了。

同时,必须挖掘更多新产品,引发环境和人权的恐惧。

新倡议,由世界可持续发展工商理事会和世界经济论坛,列出了一个愿景,行业如何打破这个习惯。

但这只是第一步,不包括金融承诺或公司目标,组织谨慎。

参与的公司包括思科,戴尔技术、嘉能可、谷歌毕马威国际,微软,西姆斯和沃达丰有限。

“我们不能继续假设我们可以生产尽可能多的产品没有考虑发生在生命的结束,”布伦丹Edgerton说WBCSD的增加,电子产品包括“一切插头或电池”。

想法从设计产品,贵金属更容易提取,建立一个“生态标签”系统,但艾顿说第一步是更温和,想出了一个共享的循环经济的样子。

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“我们正在试图做的是确保当一个公司在一个方向上,另一个公司不会有相同的目标,在不同的方向,”他告诉法新社。

戴尔说,一半的材料它使用将在2030年“回收或再生”。

“但是作为一个产业,我们需要移动得更快,”迈克尔·墨菲说,戴尔公司的产品开发工程副总裁。

10月在另一份声明,苹果表示,最新的iphone将使用完全回收稀土材料生产。
< p >只有17%的产品回收,联合国估计材料价值超过550亿美元(500亿欧元)每年都被浪费了。< / p >
只有17%的产品回收,联合国估计材料价值超过550亿美元(500亿欧元)每年都被浪费了。

“新常态”
超过一半的排放在IT部门来自设备的使用和数据中心,从生产、与其他世界经济论坛的詹姆斯·彭宁顿说。

”的一个关键方法降低排放,达到零目标是通过更多的循环经济,重用、回收和延长产品的生命,”他说。

从去年的欧洲环境总署的一次吹风会上说,研究智能手机、电视、洗衣机和吸尘器表明,他们的寿命是两年多比他们的设计或预期寿命短。

有近7亿名老“冬眠”手机仅在欧洲,总计大约14920吨黄金,银、铜、钯、钴和锂的价值超过十亿欧元。

彭宁顿说,虽然强废物法规是至关重要的,更专业的回收设施也需要处理大量的电子垃圾。

也有担忧创造激励没有确保产品实际上是回收,经过非法倾倒的家庭塑料,特别是在东南亚,已造成了严重的污染。

生态标签的概念,已经被认为是在欧洲,可以帮助人们选择绿色电器,但艾顿说回收原则需要成为“新常态”的区别。

”这真正是在它需要的规模,需要用于日常消费者,这不可能是一个上层阶级的选择蜱虫一个绿色的盒子,或者我们会发现自己处在这样的情况,不太与今天不同,”他说。


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PARIS: Major technology firms including Dell<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Google<\/a> have joined a new initiative aimed at creating a circular economy for electronics by 2030, amid mounting alarm over the world's ballooning e-waste<\/a> problem.

The project comes as humanity's insatiable appetite for smartphones, household appliances and electronic car parts combined with the short lifespans of many tech products has made
e-waste<\/a> the planet's fastest growing refuse.

According to the
United Nations<\/a>, more than 50 million tonnes of electronic waste was discarded in 2019, with the vast majority ending up in landfill and on scrap heaps.

Those products contain gold, silver, copper and platinum as well as highly-prized rare earth metals.

With only 17 per cent of products recycled, the UN estimates that materials worth more than $55 billion (50 billion euros) are being wasted every year.

Meanwhile, more must be mined to make new products, sparking environmental and human rights fears.

The new initiative, led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the
World Economic Forum<\/a>, has outlined a vision for how industry might break this habit.

But this is only a first step and does not include financial commitments or firm targets, the groups caution.

Companies taking part include Cisco,
Dell<\/a> Technologies, Glencore, Google<\/a>, KPMG International, Microsoft<\/a>, Sims Limited and Vodafone.

\"We can't continue to assume that we can produce as many products as we want without thinking about what happens at end of life,\" said Brendan Edgerton of the WBCSD, adding that electronics involved include \"everything with a plug or a battery\".

Ideas range from designing products so that precious metals are easier to extract, to creating an \"eco label\" system, but Edgerton said the initial step was more modest -- coming up with a shared idea of what a circular economy might look like.

\"What we're trying to do is make sure that when one company is going in one direction, another company isn't going in a different direction with the same goal,\" he told AFP.

Dell has said half of the materials it uses will be \"recycled or renewable\" by 2030.

\"But as an industry, we need to move faster,\" said Michael Murphy, Dell Vice President of Product Development Engineering.

In a separate announcement in October, Apple said its newest iPhones would be produced using completely recycled rare earth materials.

\"&lt;p&gt;With
With only 17 per cent of products recycled, the UN estimates that materials worth more than $55 billion (50 billion euros) are being wasted every year.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
'New normal'<\/strong>
Just over half of all emissions in the IT sector come from the use of equipment and data centres, with the rest from production, said James Pennington of the WEF.

\"One of the key ways to bring down those emissions and meet net-zero targets is through a more circular economy -- reusing, recycling and extending the life of products,\" he said.

A briefing from the European Environment Agency last year said research into smartphones, televisions, washing machines and vacuum cleaners showed that their lifespan was more than two years shorter than either their designed or desired lifetimes.

There are nearly 700 million old \"hibernating\" mobile phones in Europe alone, amounting to some 14,920 tonnes of gold, silver, copper, palladium, cobalt and lithium with a value of over a billion euros.

Pennington said that while stronger waste regulations are crucial, more specialised recycling facilities are also needed to process the sheer volume of e-waste.

There are also concerns about creating incentives without ensuring that products are actually recycled, after illegal dumping of household plastics, particularly in Southeast Asia, has caused severe pollution.

The idea of an eco label, already being considered in Europe, could help people choose green electricals, but Edgerton said recycling principles would need to become the \"new normal\" to make a difference.

\"For this to truly be at the scale that it needs to be, it needs to be available to everyday consumers, this can't be an upper class option to tick a green box, or we'll find ourselves in a situation that's not too different from today,\" he said.


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