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We’re fighting for a world where tech can last for 10 years.
Let’s end fast tech.
We’re fighting for a world where tech can last for 10 years.
Your phone is heavier than you think.
Underneath its sleek design are 586 pounds of raw materials ripped from the earth to find the critical minerals and metals needed to make one little 7-ounce device — generating 80% of a smartphone's carbon footprint before it’s first minute of use.
What’s left behind are scarred landscapes, lost childhoods, and rising geopolitical tensions that trigger conflict and war. It’s time we faced the true weight of new, and realize that the most sustainable phone is the one that already exists.
Unearth the brutal impact of the metals that make your phone.
We're overproducing tech
Smartphones in circulation right now. That’s 2 per person, for the entire global population (yes, including babies).
We're creating more e-waste
The amount e-waste has increased since 2010. Dumps now spread across the globe, from rural Hong Kong to Mexico.
We're growing our carbon footprint
The percentage that manufacturing makes up the overall carbon footprint of digital technology.
We're overproducing tech
Smartphones in circulation right now. That’s 2 per person, for the entire global population (yes, including babies).
We're creating more e-waste
The amount e-waste has increased since 2010. Dumps now spread across the globe, from rural Hong Kong to Mexico.
We're growing our carbon footprint
The percentage that manufacturing makes up the overall carbon footprint of digital technology.
Fast tech’s race to put out the “most innovative device ever” every year is helping create the climate crisis.
Fast tech is the system of overproduction and overconsumption that relies on devices built to be disposed of — either when they break down or become irrelevant, thanks to the latest “upgrade.”
It’s everywhere you look. In our pockets, in our economy, and especially in our trash. It’s time we reckon with the impact of fast tech on our planet.
It’s possible to get the tech we need while mitigating our own environmental impact. Instead of buying what we are told to or letting our old tech pile up forgotten in a drawer or worse, waste away in a landfill, we can get the most out of our devices while cutting the planet a break.
The best part? It’s not hard.
Our new documentary exposes the cost of fast tech.
Behind this peculiar mystery lies a much heavier truth.
Once a phone is made — and its impact on the planet irreversible — the greatest opportunity is not to recycle it, but to keep it in use. Empower yourself to reuse, repair, refurbish and care for your tech to make it last as long as possible.
Advocate for your right to repair.