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  1. Apr 2021
    1. It is hard to imagine even 50 million tonnes, yet this is equivalent in weight to all the commercial aircraft we have ever built throughout history, or 4,500 Eiffel Towers, enough to cover an area the size of Manhattan - and that’s just one year’s worth of the e-waste we create.

      This sentence stood out to me because it puts into perspective exactly how much waste is created in a year. I found it interesting that the amount of waste created in one year is equivalent to every commercial aircraft that has been ever built throughout history. I mainly found it interesting because it's hard to put something of that amount of weight into perspective and this sentence does a great way of explaining it.

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