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近几年，智能手机发展日新月异，手机更新迭代不断加速。有调查显示，约50%的用户每18 个月就会换机。然而在一片红火的新机销售市场背后，我国废旧手机的回收率却并不高，造成了资源浪费。 [Photo/VCG] The rapid development of technology leads to frequent personal turnover of mobile phones. About 50 percent of users in China change to a new phone every 18 months, according to Chinanews. 技术快速发展导致个人手机更新迭代愈发频繁。据中新网报道，约50%的用户每18 个月就会换部新手机。 However, alongside the high replacement rate is a low recycling rate. China now has about one billion unused mobile phones, but only two percent have been recycled with most of the rejected devices improperly handled. 然而，伴随高迭代率的是低回收率。国内现在有约10亿部废旧手机的存量，回收率只有2%左右，大量更换下来的旧手机都没有得到妥善处理。 “废旧手机”指被废弃的、老旧的手机，所以英文可以用old and discarded cell phones表示，也可简称为discarded phones。 废旧手机回收后，一般有三种去向：较新、损坏程度较小的手机经过分类处理、翻新后流入二手市场（refurbished and resold to users on second-hand market）；有一定损坏不能直接使用的手机，可用零部件会被拆解再利用（recycled for components that can be reused）；完全无法使用的，经过原材料提炼后，作为垃圾焚烧处理（units that cannot be reused are incinerated after extracting their precious metals）。 | 
