Millions of old gadgets 'stockpiled in drawers'

By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News

It seems we can’t let go of gadgets

We have become a stasher nation

As our desire for latest versions

Feeds on must-have innovation

Instead of moving on and clearing out

We hoard old models in our drawers

Keeping gear with no idea

On the shortages we cause

At least forty million gadgets kept

A UK storage stand alone

Such resource and wasteful negligence

Our tech calamity homegrown

There’s an element of rarity

On rarest elements employed

Indium gallium tantalum

Among the scarcities deployed

The effect on tech will be calamity

If one’s hoards remain intact

To cause regression on equipment

A major price increasing fact