Mass production of mobile phones may have serious consequences

A survey showed that most people want a new cell phone every three years to replace the current one. It is an ideal period for companies responsible for the production of devices to introduce new models, and for the smartphone battery to start bothering.

If we do some analysis, considering only the sale of Apple devices, we will see that in 2022 alone, 250 million devices were sold.

But what if we go further and do an analysis from the 1990s to 2018? Almost nineteen billion devices have been sold over the years.

Many of the people included in this survey probably disposed of the old device the wrong way, without worrying about how long it might take for this material to decompose.

And even today, many do not want to send them to the right place. composition is not taken into account.

But there is a consequence if we stay at this pace or even speed it up, and that is exactly what we are going to talk about today.

What will happen in the future?

The process of creating a cell phone goes through many stages and requires a huge amount of elements found in nature. This is the case of silicon, plastic, iron, aluminum, copper, lead, and others.

Soon, to produce a smartphone, we will have to extract these elements from nature. However, there is a risk that the substances in question may become extinct due to the increased consumption of these products.

Calculations for when this might happen revealed a possibility in a hundred years.

According to history records, it took about 1.8 billion years for iron to finally reach what we know and use in abundance. Which means that if this material goes extinct, it will probably take thousands of years for it to reappear.

However, introducing the concept to the current population, that it is not necessary to change a cell phone every two years if it is fully functional, is a very complex task.

This is because a large part of humanity seems to be with FOMO syndrome (Fear of missing outin English), which generates in individuals an intense fear of not keeping pace with technologies.

In addition, of course, to the great influence of the companies that produce the devices, which always want to sell them in large quantities in order to make a profit.

Perfect solution

It seems that the best solution to end this problem is to create mass awareness of the idea of ​​recycling devices. Not to mention a convenient place to dispose of the device. However, the main measure to be taken is to reduce the hardware in daily production.