Solving the E-waste Problem (Step), an initiative set up by the United Nations University, found that there is no data to say where 6m tonnes of e-waste goes every year . “We have find market based incentives to make products last longer,” says Puckett. “Right now they justify all that churn and burn by saying ‘don’t worry we’re recycling it’ but the recycling happens mostly in the global south. It’s a hand-me-down world where we sweep everything to developing countries, where they have the least infrastructure. Our recycling rates for electronics are just abysmal.”