Environmental Impact of Mobile Devices: The Need for Green Technology
The popularity of smartphones, as a large and fast-growing item of electronic equipment, has had an environmental impact that cannot be ignored. On the one hand, the production of smartphones consumes a large amount of resources, and at the same time generates waste electronic equipment both inside and outside of the use period. On the other hand, their life cycle is generally short, making them difficult to utilise in the long term, and the recycling problem is alarming. This makes mobile devices a priority for environmental protection.
At present, domestic and foreign mobile phone companies have done something to promote green technology. For example, they have adopted recyclable materials for packaging, used renewable energy in the production process, and started to use batteries in mobile phones themselves to develop their performance. However, from the perspective of the whole process, green procurement and manufacturing still need to be strengthened. At the same time, the government should introduce better regulations to increase the cost incentive for companies to use green technology.
At the consumer level, society should strengthen publicity and education to guide people to choose more environmentally friendly products and service models in the purchase and use line. Abandoning the trend of disposing of products after one year of use and extending their lifespan will be a key step in supporting green development. At the same time, a perfect recycling system is equally important, not only to reduce product residue, but also conducive to the recycling of resources.
Only with the participation of the whole society, enterprise-led production, government regulation and supervision, and consumer demand, can the smartphone industry chain truly achieve sustainable development. This is also the inevitable trend for the popularisation of green technology in the field of mobile Internet in the future.
