How green is your mobile phone?

~ Greencard for: your mobile phone ~
	Weight:	0.09	Kg
	Lifespan:	3	Years
	Enegy to make:	12	Kwh
	Energy use:	14	Kwh per year
	Co2 footprint	20	Kg
	Chemical footprint:		High
	Waste footprint:	60	%
	Carbon offset:	4.5	Trees

There are over 20 million potentially toxic discarded mobile phones in the UK alone.

Chemical contamination

Mobile phones contain toxic metals including arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc.

Factoids [5]

In the UK, an estimated 15 million mobile phones are replaced every year. This equals to 1712 mobile phones being replaced every minute.

To manufacture a single mobile phone, the energy required is the same as 39.8 gallons of petrol would provide.

The energy required to produce 18 million phones would power 34,000 homes for a year.

In 2006, more than a billion mobile phones were manufactured. These caused approximately 60 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.

One ton of cell phones contains over 3.5 kg of silver, there,s enough gold in 200 cell phones to produce one gold ring.

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