As mobile manufacturers recycle valuable components like gold, copper, silver, palladium taken from discarded devices, experts have warned that roughly 5.3 billion mobile/smartphones will drop out of use this year, a majority of them disappearing into drawers, closets, cupboards and garages at homes, or tossed into waste bins.

Average household today contains 74 e-products such as phones, tablets, laptops, electric tools, hair dryers, toasters and other appliances (excluding lamps), according to a new global survey. Of that 74 average total e-products, 13 are being hoarded (9 of them unused but working, 4 broken).