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We as a society are addicted to our cell phones. And that's pretty scary when we often don't know what's in them. Cara wrote that in 2009, two groups of researchers looked at 25 studies of cell phone users and found a 50 to 90 percent increased risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma brain tumors. And cell phones are also hard on the planet in a big way.
What infuriates me the most, is that every few years your cell stops working correctly or goes out-of-date and then everyone buys a new one. What's more, every time you buy a new cell phone it comes with a new charger for your home and your car and cell phone companies design them that way so that they can increase profit margins. It's so wasteful and ridiculous.
But have you ever thought of it from the cell phone's perspective? Well now you will and in the process, learn what's really in your cell phone. You'll see that its parts are sourced all over, I mean all over the world. And they could be designed in a much better way so that they could be updated, instead of thrown out, and dissembled instead of just sent to the landfill.
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