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As mobile manufacturers recycle valuable components like gold, copper, silver, and palladium taken from discarded devices, experts have warned that roughly 5.3 billion mobile/smartphones will drop out of use this year, a majority of them disappearing into drawers, closets, cupboards and garages at homes, or tossed into waste bins. Average household today contains 74 e-products such as phones, tablets, laptops, electric tools, hair dryers, toasters and other appliances (excluding lamps), according to a new global survey. Of that 74 average total e-products, 13 are being hoarded (9 of them unused but working, 4 broken). Mobile phones rank 4th among small products most often hoarded by consumers, according to the results of surveys conducted to reveal why so many households and businesses fail to bring waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in for repair or recycling. The surveys were conducted from June to September, 2022 by the members of the <keyword id="15249364" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="weee-forum" source="Orion">WEEE Forum</keyword> and the results were consolidated by the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) Programme. "We focused this year on small e-waste items because it is very easy for them to accumulate unused and unnoticed in households, or to be tossed into the ordinary garbage bin. People tend not to realise that all these seemingly insignificant items have a lot of value, and together at a global level represent massive volumes," said <keyword id="15258300" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="pascal-leroy" source="Orion">Pascal Leroy</keyword>, Director General of the WEEE Forum. "Providing collection boxes in supermarkets, pick up of small broken appliances upon delivery of new ones and offering PO Boxes to return small e-waste are just some of the initiatives introduced to encourage the return of these items," Leroy added. Meanwhile, LED lamps rank tops the list of products most likely to be trashed. Total global stock of mobile phones (in use and hoarded) is around 16 billion. In 2022 alone, small EEE items such as cell phones, electric toothbrushes, toasters and cameras produced worldwide will weigh an estimated total of 24.5 million tonnes -- four times the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza. "These small items make up a significant proportion of the 8 per cent of all e-waste thrown into trash bins and eventually landfilled or incinerated," said <keyword id="15258301" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="magdalena-charytanowicz" source="Orion">Magdalena Charytanowicz</keyword> of the WEEE Forum in charge of International E-Waste Day. "These devices offer many important resources that can be used in the production of new electronic devices or other equipment, such as wind turbines, electric car batteries or solar panels - all crucial for the green, digital transition to low-carbon societies," <keyword id="15258302" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="charytanowicz" source="Orion">Charytanowicz</keyword> added. <keyword id="13875420" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="nikhil-seth" source="Orion">Nikhil Seth</keyword>, UNITAR's Executive Director said that UNITAR is proud of this new course on e-waste management "as an outstanding example of how to use scientific findings in a practical way for international training and capacity building in an area of critical environmental importance". SEE ALSO:

5.3 bn mobile phones will become waste this year, warn experts

Sheesh — it's already Monday. Jordan Parker Erb here, reporting to you from New York. On social media, people are waging <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/handles-instagram-twitter-social-media-deadly-harassment-campaign-2022-7">a deadly campaign</a> over something seemingly banal: usernames. Oh, and for all you Wordle fans (guilty!), the online puzzle is being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wordle-is-becoming-a-multi-player-board-game-heres-how-to-get-it-2022-7">turned into a board game</a>.Now, let's get to it.If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://link.insider.com/click/27645591.160803/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zaWRlci5jb20vYXBwP25yX2VtYWlsX3JlZmVyZXI9MSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9T3BlbmluZ19iZWxs/62667762063d6b9bef0cffb3Bf9c9aa56">here.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/handles-instagram-twitter-social-media-deadly-harassment-campaign-2022-7"></a>1. People are waging a deadly war over social media usernames. Unique usernames — so-called <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/handles-instagram-twitter-social-media-deadly-harassment-campaign-2022-7">"OG handles"</a> — have become increasingly coveted on social media, and some people are going to desperate lengths to get them.<ul><li>One <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech" source="Orion">tech</keyword> exec, who nabbed the handle @ginger, is used to fielding offers to buy the username. But in 2020, he became a part of a campaign of terror over the handle.</li><li>Platforms like Instagram and Twitter ban the sale of handles, so online marketplaces have sprung up instead. The most valuable usernames — two-letter handles, as well as memorable words like ginger — can sell for thousands of dollars.</li><li>But some people turn to more drastic measures to get rare usernames. Several people with pithy, coveted handles have been targeted, resulting in harassment and "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-swatting">swatting</a>" — and in one case, death.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/handles-instagram-twitter-social-media-deadly-harassment-campaign-2022-7">Inside the obsession with social media's most sought-after handles.</a>In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-amazonbasics-private-label-brands-7-22"></a><div type="image" title="A cart full of Amazon packages and boxes" height="1666" width="2222" msid="92956009" hostid="261" sizebytes="637334"></div>2. Amazon is shrinking private brands like AmazonBasics. The Wall Street Journal reported the company is cutting back on its private-label business — including its colossal AmazonBasics brand — and is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-amazonbasics-private-label-brands-7-22">considering nixing its private-label selections altogether</a>.3. Elon Musk could face prison time if he doesn't comply with a court order in Twitter's suit. According to a legal expert, the court handling the case has many ways to force compliance — including massive daily fines, taking control of Tesla stock, and even sending Musk to prison. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-could-lose-tesla-stock-go-prison-over-twitter-2022-7">Here's what legal experts are saying.</a>4. A tech worker was fired after posting TikToks about her salary. The employee, based in Denver, deleted videos from her account to avoid angering her bosses, but was fired two days after superiors discussed the content of her videos with her. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-videos-cost-new-hire-tech-job-sharing-salary-2022-7">She breaks down what happened.</a>5. Inside the world of Weee, a rapidly rising online grocer. Weee's CEO Larry Liu pivoted his failing group-buying startup into an Asian and Hispanic grocery delivery service worth $4 billion. While Liu cites the company's diverse immigrant workforce as an advantage, some workers say the company's culture is brutal. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/asian-and-hispanic-grocery-service-weee-pivots-to-success-and-problems-2022-7">Read the full profile on Weee.</a>6. Coinbase is temporarily shutting down its US affiliate-marketing program on July 19. In leaked emails, Coinbase said "crypto market conditions" mean the company is "unable to continue supporting incentivized traffic to its platform." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-temporarily-shutting-down-us-affiliate-marketing-program-for-influencers-2022-7?op=1&amp;scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T">Here's what we learned from the emails.</a>7. Shopify is canceling some students' internships via email. The company rescinded offers for some interns who were set to begin this fall, and is also pausing recruiting for other fall internships — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-rescinds-offers-for-some-fall-interns-pauses-recruiting-2022-7">drying up a key onramp into the tech industry</a>.8. Mark Cuban said he made a joke that made Bill Gates so "pissed" they never spoke again. In a podcast interview, Cuban said the interaction happened right after Cuban sold his company Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion in 1999, and that they haven't spoken since. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-bill-gates-never-spoken-again-after-joke-2022-7">See the joke that has the pair at odds.</a>Odds and ends:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wordle-is-becoming-a-multi-player-board-game-heres-how-to-get-it-2022-7"></a><div type="image" title="A person plays Wordle: The Party Game, a new board game." height="2262" width="3016" msid="92956011" hostid="261" sizebytes="363258"></div>9. Wordle is being turned into a board game. The viral online puzzle, wherein players have six tries to guess a five-letter word, is being reimagined as a board game to play IRL. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wordle-is-becoming-a-multi-player-board-game-heres-how-to-get-it-2022-7">Here's how to play "Wordle: The Party Game."</a>10. Rivian's new R1S is like three dream cars wrapped up into one EV. After test-driving the new electric SUV, Insider's transportation reporter was enamored. With stunning features, off-roading capabilities, and practicality to boot, he came away thinking <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rivian-r1s-electric-suv-review-drive-range-photos-price-2022-7">the R1S is the best of all worlds</a>.What we're watching today:<ul><li>IBM, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and others are reporting earnings. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/earnings-calendar">Keep up with earnings here.</a></li><li>It's Sir Richard Branson's birthday.</li><li>The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, described as the "<a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/the-new-champion-dialogues-2022">Summer Davos</a>," starts today.</li><li>GameStop Corp record date for 4-for-1 stock split.</li><li>A hearing is being held in the UK class action case <a href="https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/14087721-elizabeth-helen-coll">against Google and Alphabet</a>.</li></ul>Keep updated with the latest tech news throughout your day by checking out<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh"> The Refresh from Insider,</a> a dynamic audio news brief from the Insider newsroom. <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh">Listen here.</a>Curated by Jordan Parker Erb in New York. (Feedback or tips? Email <a href="mailto:jerb@insider.com">jerb@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanparkererb?lang=en">@jordanparkererb</a>.) Edited by Hallam Bullock (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/hallam_bullock">@hallam_bullock</a>) in London.

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