[OC] Elektroschrott, der pro Person in Europa erzeugt wird (2022)

You would think that places with younger populations generate more e-waste, but it seems to mostly track prosperity and consumerism.

I wonder to what degree recycling and waste separation factor into it. Germany is obsessed with separating trash into dozen different categories to dispose separately, while Austria, which in most other aspects is culturally similar, very much isn’t, yet the two generate similar levels of e-waste.