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Apr 4, 2024 · Victoria Masterson. Electronic voting – or e-voting – means voters can vote from their home, another country or a kiosk in a polling station. Estonia pioneered online voting in 2005, but e-voting systems around the world are still developing. Digital technology is crucial for reducing social and economic inequalities, the World Economic ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Global e-waste is predicted to reach 74.7 million tonnes by 2030. Image: UNU, ITU and ISWA. 1. Colourful collections. Cambridge City Council in the UK now provides bright pink bins to collect residents’ discarded small electrical goods and reduce the quantity of e-waste that ends up in regular recycling collections.
Dec 7, 2022 · Quick Key Facts. 1. E-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world; between 50 and 60 million tons are produced every year. 2. The e-waste discarded in 2021 alone weighs more than the Great Wall of China: the heaviest fabricated structure in the world. 3. 75-80% of e-waste is shipped to countries in Africa and Asia, where poor and ...
Jan 18, 2021 · Constant tech upgrades have created a growing global e-waste challenge. While U.S. households now produce less e-waste by weight than in 2015, only about 35% is recycled. If devices decompose in landfills, hazardous compounds can leach into groundwater, including lead and mercury. It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile ...
Jun 27, 2019 · Indeed, we generated the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers of electronic waste in a single year. And yet just 20% of gets collected and recycled. With 100 times more gold in a tonne of e-waste than in a tonne of gold ore, alongside other scarce and valuable materials such as platinum, cobalt and rare earth elements, a safe and efficient recycling industry has huge economic potential.
Jan 11, 2022 · Growing dependency on digital systems over the last 20 years has drastically shifted the way many societies function. 2 The COVID-19-induced shift to remote work has accelerated the adoption of platforms and devices that allow sensitive data to be shared with third parties—cloud service providers, data aggregators, application programming interfaces (APIs), and other technology-related ...
Aug 2, 2021 · The International Council on Clean Transportation is tackling this in a white paper. They show that emissions over the lifetime of a mid-sized electric passenger car are already considerably lower than those of a comparable gasoline car. Emissions savings from electric cars range from 19-34% in India to 66-69% in Europe.
for Safe and Green Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling BRIEFING PAPER JUNE 2023 Executive summary Electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling poses a triple opportunity: 1. potentially cutting about 40% of a battery’s lifetime carbon footprint,1 2. creating jobs and 3. reducing the reliance on virgin material inputs.
Apr 7, 2016 · In this post I discuss five essential ways social media has been used to support the environment: 1) with the “crowd”; 2) by enabling the rise of independent activists; 3) by creating campaign pressure points; 4) with the development of sensing hardware and personal wearables; and 5) with the use of geotags and hashtags. Introduction.
The global consumer IoT market is forecasted to reach $154 Billion USD by 2028. As the use of connected devices increases, so does the potential for cyber threats – particularly as new products introduce vulnerabilities, potentially exposing people to hacking or leaks of personal data. Products in the home can be exposed to more than 12,000 ...
