Evan Luthra talks about the consequences of the excessive consumption of rare earth elements and other materials being used in manufacturing of smart phone & technology devices. The excessive consumption of rare earth elements at current pace across the globe can become a major problem in the coming years. Evan emphasizes on the ways to tackle this problem of depleting resources through recycling and reusing the materials being used in building technology devices so as to have a constant technological growth. Evan Luthra is a young and dynamic entrepreneur who is thinking of new ideas to make this world a better place. He started out by curating Technology news at the age of 13 , After crossing 200,000 readers - he moved on to developing mobile apps when he was just 14 , since then he hasn't looked back and created various web 2.0 companies and manages a user base of over One Million users. He has founded various startups. Serves as the CEO / Director at quite a few companies and Sits on the Board of Advisors on others. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx