What would you do with your used-to beloved cellphone? Give it to your parent?Resell? Or throw out? Well, as new cellphones are published at a veryhard-to-catch pace, your cellphones will go waste faster even you may stilllove them. New features attraction or social needs, whatever, you just want toget a new phone. Let’s take a look at a few sales statistics of cellphones.

Accordingto Gartner, a US-based technologyresearch agency, in 2012 world mobile phone sales to end users by vendor was 1,746,175.6thousand, and that reached to 1,806,964.7 thousand in 2013. Think about thetime you keep a cellphone, take the US consumers as an example, the average Americankeeps their phone for 18 months short. Just imagine the number, picturemillions of dumped cellphones sleeping next to a mountain; you won’t believe itcould be this.

Now the problem comes, whatto do with the waste cellphones or where do they go? 99% of the critical rareearths in every single electronic device cannot be recovered for recycling. Andyet a new smartphone cannot be made from 100% recycled materials.  75% of the waste phones end up in landfills—mostin developing countries. (source: iFixit)

Repair, so far, is the bestway to defense against digital waste. Repair means so much, by environmentalcare or by money saving. Extend the life of your electronics as long aspossible. One step of yours might bring a leap for the environmentalprotection.