Despite being unheard of just a few years ago, the smartphone has grown rapidly to become a major part of our lives. In a survey conducted by Time Magazine, as many as 84% of Americans said they would not be able to survive a day without one. What’s more, it is estimated that around 1billion new smartphones are sold every year around the world.

In the relatively short space of time since the first iPhone was launched in 2007, our smartphones have become an integral part of everyday life. We use them for everything from managing our bank to checking the baseball odds, playing Candy Crush to chatting on social media, so it's no surprise that we’ve become personally and emotionally attached to our gadgets. It’s hard to imagine a life without our phones, but if we don’t start to rethink how we recycle our used devices and reduce the number we get through in the first place, then that could become a reality, and a lot sooner than you may think.

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