The Amsterdam robot providing life after iPhone
For as long as there have been electronic goods, there’s been electronic waste. The hazardous material it contains makes it difficult to process, and for decades the burden fell upon local authorities who struggled to cope. In 1990 an unlikely hero emerged, a Swedish professor named Thomas Lindhqvist who proposed that manufacturers of goods should be made responsible for the costs of dealing with them when they reach the end of their life, giving them an incentive to design products sustainably.
— also offer e-waste take-back schemes and recycling programmes via WEEE partners. Samsung boasts of collecting 5.69 million tonnes of e-waste between 2009 and 2022 while increasing the number of device components that incorporate at least 10 per cent recycled material. ’s recycling centres in China collected 1.08 million phones last year, with 195 tonnes of products recycled. Xiaomi, once criticised by Greenpeace for not reporting publicly on its use of recycled materials or take-back efforts, has now committed to recycling 38,000 tonnes of e-waste and using 5,000 tonnes of recycled material in products between 2022 and 2026.
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