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 ye
This quote stood out to me because we hear numbers as high as this all the time, but it can be hard to actually understand how much that is because it's not a number we can easily visualize. The comparison that stood out to me the most was that the amount of e-waste produced per year could cover an area the size of Manhattan. This helps put into perspective just how much e-waste we're actually creating annually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Uy-6uQOTQ&t=4s
This video talks about how eWaste is contaminating our environment and the dangers it is presenting to our health.