Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    Electronics recycling really needs to be more mainstream. We’re burying way too much mineral content.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3 days

      Yeah throwing out an entire computer because one little component is burnt out, or throwing out a whole component because one little connection is burnt out. And then there’s even micro soldering if you want to get surgical…

      Or simply throwing a computer away because it’s slower than the new one. The price paid by the environment, by future generations, for e-waste needs to be front-loaded into the manufacturing process.

      Otherwise companies are just stealing from the future and turning collective horizon into an unlivable garbage dump.