The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Well, you would have assumed that many of the manufacturers would have come up with a common system scheme so they don't have to recreate the wheel with every new phone model. Also, aren't most of those components (green boxes) like CPU, RAM, storage, 2G/3G, WiFI, Bluetooth, etc already integrated into the primary system-on-a-chip? What components *aren't* on the SoC and need to be connected?