What’s a smartphone made of? | Kim Preshoff | TED-Ed Animation

Increase your digital fluency with the TED-Ed animation “What’s a smartphone made of?,” which investigates the sustainability of phone production. If the 2.5 billion worldwide smartphone users (as of 2018) broke apart all the newest phones, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver and 40,000,000 of copper. Can we reclaim this precious cache? Lesson creator Kim Preshoff explains the engineering of mobile devices and the sustainability of this technology amid the digital transformation of our everyday lives.