Why Your Old Phones Collect in a Junk Drawer of Sadness

Admit it: Somewhere in your house, old devices are lurking in a drawer, a box, a dark corner.

Broken phones, weird chargers for things you can’t fully recall; we try to convince ourselves this sad array of misfit gadgetry will simply disappear if we just forget about it hard enough. How did we get here?

Smartphones shouldn’t be so disposable. Could fixing the way we make our phones help solve climate change?