The smartphone you may be using right now to look at this Periodic Table is made up of some 30 elements – over half of which may give cause for concern in the years to come because of increasing scarcity.
The issue of #lementscarcity cannot be stressed enough. With some 10 million smartphones being discarded or replaced every month just in the #EuropeanUnion, we need to carefully look at our tendencies to #waste and improperly recycle such items.
Unless solutions are provided, we risk seeing many of the natural elements that make up the world around us run out – whether because of limited supplies, their location in conflict areas, or our incapacity to fully recycle them.
