{"id":16338,"date":"2020-07-03T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:42:00","slug":"humans-left-behind-a-record-amount-of-e-waste-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/weben\/humans-left-behind-a-record-amount-of-e-waste-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans left behind a record amount of e-waste in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>2019 set a record for the amount of e-waste ever generated worldwide: 53.6 million metric tons of discarded phones, computers, appliances, and other gadgets. That\u2019s more than the combined weight of all the adults in Europe. It\u2019s also a 21 percent increase since 2014, according to a new international report.<\/p>\n<p>Just 17 percent of that waste was officially recycled, the report finds. The vast majority of it was either sent to a landfill, incinerated, or vanished somewhere into the bureaucratic ether when officials lost track of it. The report was meant to document global progress on getting a handle on e-waste, authors of the paper say. Instead, they found that the world has backtracked.<\/p>\n<p>They anticipate that the problem will only get worse. The amount of e-waste is expected to almost double from 2014 levels by 2030. That\u2019s a danger to people\u2019s health, according to the report, because the trash can poison people handling it and the surrounding environment. Asia, the largest and most populous continent, created the most e-waste in 2019. Europe had the highest rate of e-waste per capita, nearly three times that of Asia. Europe also had the highest rate of collecting and recycling its waste.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21309776\/record-amount-ewaste-2019-global-report-environment-health\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 set a record for the amount of e-waste ever generated worldwide: 53.6 million metric tons of discarded phones, computers, appliances, and other gadgets. That\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76,40],"tags":[907,3220,398,3474],"class_list":["post-16338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recap-en","category-weben","tag-asia","tag-e-waste","tag-recycling","tag-trash","wpcat-76-id","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16341,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions\/16341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}