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🗓️ 13 September 2023

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Summary

The UK is one of the largest producers of household electronic waste in the world. In 2022 we threw away nearly 24 kilos of things like plugs, mobile phones and computer hardware per person.

The volume of e-waste produced world-wide is predicted to increase from more than 61 million metric tons this year to nearly 75 million in 2030 – and the vast majority of this will go into landfill.

In this special episode, Becky Slack from the New Statesman's Spotlight team meets Michael Wyatt, director of Google ChromeOS EMEA, and Justin Sutton-Parker, CEO of research group Px3, to discuss what businesses and other organisations can do to play their part in reducing the scourge of e-waste, and more broadly how IT can drive sustainability.

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0:00.0	The New Statesman.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to the latest New Statesman Spotlight Podcast,
0:10.0	brought to you in association with Google Chrome OS.
0:14.0	I'm Becky Slack and I'm joined today by Michael Wyatt,
0:22.0	director of Chrome OS E- E A, and Dr Justin Sutton Parker,
0:27.0	CEO of Research Organization PX3 and Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.
0:33.0	Michael, Justin, welcome to the podcast.
0:40.0	Thank you. Good morning. The UK is one of the largest producers of household electronic waste in the world. In 2022 we threw away nearly 24 kilos of things like plugs, mobile phones and computer
0:55.2	hardware per person. The volume of e-waste produced worldwide is predicted to
1:00.1	increase from more than 61 million metric tons this year to nearly 75 million in 2030,
1:06.3	and the vast majority of this will go into landfill.
1:09.1	Today we are going to discuss what businesses and other organizations can do to play their part in reducing the scourge of E-waste and more broadly how IT can drive sustainability.
1:19.0	Justin, I'd like to start with you please.
1:21.0	We've heard those striking statistics just now on how much
1:24.0	e-waste is produced globally and how this is only expected to grow. Can you give our
1:28.4	listeners an overview of how e-waste is generated and what it's comprised of?
1:32.1	And just to say that as I'm sat here chatting with you I'm looking at is talking about
1:47.4	460 60 million devices produced every year from a, desktops, etc.
1:53.6	And that's really down to demand from roughly around
1:56.6	about 4 billion users.
1:58.0	The point being is that obviously people keep those
2:01.5	for differing lengths of time. So when it comes to the end of its
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