[nebula8804]

>A lot of the elements that went into making the 2010s state of the art electronics are now lost in landfills, never to be recovered or reused again.

Can you name some examples?

[dopamean]

I often wonder where all the ipods went.

[nebula8804]

Don't think iPods are anything special, they are just small computers: they have CPU, ram, storage and a battery. I'd imagine they mostly went into e-cycling just like the billions of cellphones that are scrapped. They are similar sizes to cell phones.