Our son is currently learning about recycling in their science class. He brought home this bar chart about unrecycled raw materials and rare-earth elements in old phones and the numbers are pretty mind-boggling.
I double-checked them and – no surprise if you know the German school system – they seemed to be pretty outdated but still mostly correct.
More recent numbers say that we are already at roughly 220 million unrecycled phones in Germany. (translation in the alt text)
