A scultupre of world leaders errected near the G7 summit last year to raise awareness about electronic waste has been dismantled.
The Mount Recyclemore sculpture at the Eden Project - shaped like Mount Rushmore in the United States - was constructed from 20,000 discarded electrical products including mobile phones and computer parts.
It was initially positioned across the water from Carbis Bay Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall, where the G7 summit was held.
The scultupre featured seven current and former world leaders, including Boris Johnson; Emmanuel Macron, the French president; Yoshihide Suga, Japan's prime minister; Mario Draghi, Italy's outgoing prime minister; Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister; Angela Merkel, German's former chancellor; and Joe Biden, the US president.
The scultupre was dismantled at the Eden Project ahead of E-Waste Day on Friday, which this year will focus primarily on small electrical devices that we no longer use but keep in drawers or cupboards, or often throw away.
The UN estimated in 2019 that over 22 million tonnes of small e-waste were produced worldwide, accounting for 40 per cent of the 57 million tonnes of all e-waste produced globally.
Jo Elworthy, from the Eden Project, said every part of the project would be recycled.
"We put it in a year ago, it was always designed to be here a year," she said. "Life moves on, some of the leaders in the sculpture have moved on, and by taking it down we're making another statement about how we recycle it now."
Joe Rush, who was commissioned to create the sculpture by musicMagpie, said last year that he hoped the works would "prick" the conscience of the world leaders.
"We have this looking at them and hopefully we're going to prick their conscience and make them realise they're all togheter in this waste business," he told the BBC.
"The key message is 'talk to each other' and let's sort this mess out."
