Apple’s colossal e-waste timebomb
During Apple’s financials earnings call the other day, CEO Tim Cook casually announced that Apple’s hardware ecosystem had exceeded 1.65 billion devices by the end of last year.
At the time I remember thinking “wow,” and then promptly forgot about it.
Then the other night, it struck me just how enormous that number actually is.
A billion. Then half again. And a bit more on top to finish.
And then it dawned on me just how big of an e-waste problem is facing Apple in the coming years.
A billion of anything is huge. A billion grains of rice weigh 25 metric tons and take up 30 cubic meters.
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