The typical adult will spend around £40,000 on tech during their lifetime, according to a study. This will include 21 mobile phones, 16 games consoles and 16 laptops or computers - along with more than 1,000 batteries and 126 charging cables.
They will also purchase a total of 13 TVs, 16 tablets and 13 cameras - not forgetting 21 pairs of headphones and 16 sets of speakers.
However, the research commissioned by musicMagpie, found almost a fifth of adults will simply bin their tech once they've finished with it - even if the device is still in working order.
And more than a third of the 2,000 adults polled will hang on to their old gadgets because they 'don't know what else to do with them.' It also emerged the average adult could currently