The fate of old electronics

A number of employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created the BackTalk project , whose task is to investigate the fate of electronic devices that their owners considered obsolete and replaced them with new ones. During the project, researchers added GPS mini-transmitters to the gadgets and tracked where mobile phones, batteries, and printer cartridges get.

As a result, it was concluded that during transportation, electronic devices do much more harm to the environment than directly disposing of them on site.

The video shows the presentation of the project and the main results.