Canada’s electronic waste more than tripled in the last two decades and is expected to keep increasing, a new study indicates, with researchers urging better…
Lead researcher Komal Habib, a professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, said the rising rate of electronic consumption can be attributed to the increased pace of technological developments since the turn of the millennium, shorter device lifespan and consumer habits.
“The phone I’m holding right now … is five years old, but not many Canadians are like me, right? They tend to upgrade their device every year.”Within all of that electric junk is “an urban mine of precious minerals and many other types of resources,” which, according to Habib, could help create a secondary supply chain of critical minerals and reduce potential supply disruptions if managed properly.
Canada’s e-waste recycling infrastructure has not developed at a pace in line with electronics development, said Habib. “That is something which is lacking: a bridge between these two sectors at both ends of a product, at the designer and manufacturer level, as well as the end-of-life level,” she said.Article content“It’s our responsibility to be mindful of our consumption patterns,” said Habib. “We really don’t need to upgrade our product every year or every two years if it’s fully functional and providing the service we bought it for.
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