The afterlife of your smartphone – is the planet paying too much for our luxury?

Changing mobile phones has been part of our lives for quite a while now. Whether you're doing it every year or once in three years, you will eventually get a new one. Even if you keep your old device as a back-up, down the line there's always one that is now obsolete.

We decided to take a look at the smartphone industry and see what resources are used for the manufacturing of our devices and how much of them is being reused or wasted.

In 2017 alone, 1.45 billion smartphones were produced globally. Of course, not all of them replaced an existing device, some sales are to first time ...