• Home
  • Actions
  • Events
    • Upcoming In-person and On-line Events
    • Fridays For Future Climate Strikes
    • Ontario Election June 2, 2022
  • The Challenge
    • Community Carbon Challenge
    • Climate Change – 9 Lesson Unit
    • New Challenges
    • Business Carbon Challenge
    • Pledge List
    • Carbon Challenge Videos
    • Quick N Delish
    • Carbon 101
    • Sustainability Tool Kit
  • Our News
    • Weekly Newsletter
      • Fridays For Future Climate Strikes
    • Meanwhile in Ontario
    • Muskoka Drawdown
    • Our News – Media Releases
    • Re-Imagining The Future
    • Building Back Better Column
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • What Is Climate Action Muskoka
  • Sectors
    • Education
    • Buildings
    • Transportation
    • Food and Agriculture
    • The Stuff We Buy
    • Land Use
    • Energy
    • Economics
  • Media
    • Local Media
    • Podcasts-Books-Movies
      • Books
      • Movies
    • Climate News Ontario
    • Climate News Canada
    • News From Around The World
    • Focus On The Science
      • IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change
  • Others
    • Communities Taking Action Feature
    • Local Climate Groups & Initiatives
    • Climate Action Initiatives in other Communities
    • Indigenous Peoples – Canada
      • Indigenous Peoples Around the World
    • Young women on the front lines of the climate movement.
    • Seniors In Action
    • Climate and the Law
  • Resources
    • Real Climate Facts And Figures And Solutions
    • EV Charger Map
    • Muskoka Water Web
    • Renewable Energy in Muskoka
    • Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Governments at Every Level
      • Governments at Every Level
      • Our Provincial and Federal Representatives
      • Our District Government
    • Climate Emergency Declaration
      • Climate Emergency Declaration
      • Invitation to Endorse CAM’s Declaration of Climate Emergency Resolution
        • Endorsements — Climate Emergency Declaration
      • The Back Story
Skip to content

Climate Action Muskoka

  • Home
  • Actions
  • Events
    • Upcoming In-person and On-line Events
    • Fridays For Future Climate Strikes
    • Ontario Election June 2, 2022
  • The Challenge
    • Community Carbon Challenge
    • Climate Change – 9 Lesson Unit
    • New Challenges
    • Business Carbon Challenge
    • Pledge List
    • Carbon Challenge Videos
    • Quick N Delish
    • Carbon 101
    • Sustainability Tool Kit
  • Our News
    • Weekly Newsletter
      • Fridays For Future Climate Strikes
    • Meanwhile in Ontario
    • Muskoka Drawdown
    • Our News – Media Releases
    • Re-Imagining The Future
    • Building Back Better Column
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • What Is Climate Action Muskoka
  • Sectors
    • Education
    • Buildings
    • Transportation
    • Food and Agriculture
    • The Stuff We Buy
    • Land Use
    • Energy
    • Economics
  • Media
    • Local Media
    • Podcasts-Books-Movies
      • Books
      • Movies
    • Climate News Ontario
    • Climate News Canada
    • News From Around The World
    • Focus On The Science
      • IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change
  • Others
    • Communities Taking Action Feature
    • Local Climate Groups & Initiatives
    • Climate Action Initiatives in other Communities
    • Indigenous Peoples – Canada
      • Indigenous Peoples Around the World
    • Young women on the front lines of the climate movement.
    • Seniors In Action
    • Climate and the Law
  • Resources
    • Real Climate Facts And Figures And Solutions
    • EV Charger Map
    • Muskoka Water Web
    • Renewable Energy in Muskoka
    • Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Governments at Every Level
      • Governments at Every Level
      • Our Provincial and Federal Representatives
      • Our District Government
    • Climate Emergency Declaration
      • Climate Emergency Declaration
      • Invitation to Endorse CAM’s Declaration of Climate Emergency Resolution
        • Endorsements — Climate Emergency Declaration
      • The Back Story

Don’t Upgrade Your Phone (Yet!)

I will not rush to upgrade to the latest smartphone model on offer and when I upgrade, I will be sure my old phone is repurposed or recycled responsibly. Fact: Extending the lifespan of smartphones and other electronics by just one year in the EU would save as much carbon emissions as taking two million cars off the roads annually.  Source

We all love our smartphones but do we need to upgrade with every new feature offered by manufacturers?

Almost 1.5 billion phones are made and sold every year, and the resources used to make those phones are finite. Even if you recycle your old phone, up to 35% of those resources are lost in the recycling process. 

The UN stated last year that electronic and electrical waste reached 50 million tonnes with just a fifth of the e-waste formally recycled. Millions of people work informally recycling these materials and are often exposed to dangerous working environments.

A smartphone is made up of 62 different metals and metalloids. In order to obtain these precious metals and produce a single smartphone, 34kg of ore is mined, using 100 litres of water and 20.5g of cyanide.

According to the EPA, between 130 million and 150 million phones are abandoned in the US every year. 

Resources:

Don’t Upgrade Your Phone (Yet!) – YouTube

https://www.ifixit.com/News/52180/dont-upgrade-your-phone-yet

How to save the world, one mobile device at a time | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)


Return to New Challenges List

Let's take action together in 2022

Our Weekly Newsletter

View
Subscribe

Regular Features

Political Action of the Week -Watch this 21-minute excerpt from Doug Ford’s Climate Crimes: A SCAN! “Indictment on 33 Counts”

Upcoming Events -Monday, May 16 – 6:30-8:00 pm – Provincial party leaders debate

Muskoka Drawdown - The radio Show and Podcast
May 14, 2022 – “Dr Laurie Houston: Greening Healthcare”

Feature Podcast - Taking stock of Doug Ford’s climate change record with David Robertson from “Seniors for Climate Action Now”

Quick N Delish - Planet Friendly Recipes
Vegetarian Chili

Search

Quote Me

On extreme weather events - “Our leaders seem incapable of anticipating these events, grasping their significance, or imagining how much worse things will get. They live in a dream world that no longer exists” 

Kai Nagata, Dogwood BC

On The Road To Zero

Bring back the train
Bring back the train.

Our News

  • Climate Action Muskoka among 150+ group coalition launching Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign
  • CAM Partners with Retired Teachers of Ontario to Deliver Climate Curriculum to Muskoka Students
  • March 25 — Special Fridays For Future Global Strike #PeopleNotProfit
  • March 2, 2022 — The High Price of Bad Energy Choices
  • “Posing as Canadian: How Big Foreign Oil Captures Canadian Energy and Climate Policy”

Centre For Truth and Reconciliation

For more information click on the logo

Our Weekly Newsletter

View
Subscribe
Donations
Powered by WordPress Theme: BlogX by wpthemespace.com