US EditionMillions of Old Phones as Raw Material Treasure in Drawers
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Sueddeutsche Zeitung
The new cell phone is there, so go to the drawer with the old one. 86 percent of mobile phone users say this is the case according to a survey.
The new phone is there, so off into the drawer with the old one. Wait a minute - does that have to be? Because most of the time you don't need such a spare phone anymore. A digital association has better ideas.
The number of unused mobile phones and smartphones in German households has continued to decline, but remains at a high level. The IT industry association Bitkom announced on Wednesday that 167 million old devices are currently lying unused in drawers, compared to 195 million last year. At the end of 2022, the number was 210 million unused mobile phones and smartphones, in 2021 it was around 206 million, and in 2020 around 199 million. Despite t…
Although the number of unused mobile phones and smartphones in German households has continued to fall - from 195 million in the previous year to currently 167 million. Nevertheless, 86 percent of people in Germany retain at least one unused mobile phone or smartphone at home. This is what the digital association Bitkom has done on the basis of a representative survey of 1004 people in Germany.
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