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The best way to reduce a phone’s impact is to keep it in use — a phone kept for 10 years instead of 2.5 helps prevent 1669 lbs of raw material extraction.
16 billion
Smartphones in circulation worldwide. 5.3 billion are discarded every year.
80%
Of a smartphone's carbon footprint is generated before its first minute of use.
586 lbs
The amount of raw materials 1 single smartphone needs, more than 1,000 times its own weight.
Learn to keep your phone in use longer.
Repair it, resell it, or choose refurbished instead of buying new.
Tell your state lawmakers to support Right to Repair
Right to Repair is won state by state. With Repair.org, take 90 seconds to tell your lawmakers to support your right to fix the devices you already own.
