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"new base-model iPhone every year," Anyone think about the environmental impact and the ewaste this creates and that a lot of used electronics ends up in Africa
by acd 11y ago
"new base-model iPhone every year,"
Anyone think about the environmental impact and the ewaste this creates and that a lot of used electronics ends up in Africa and China at electronic scrapyards?
In a perfect world 100% of our cellphone is recycled and then it would be ok to get a new one each year. Except the recycling part does not work yet.
Do we want the scenes of Wall-e to become real?
Here is a documentary about where the electronic waste ends up
http://www.e-wastelandfilm.com/ http://www.e-wastelandfilm.com/
- dangero 11y agoThe article speculates the used phones will be resold not sent to a landfill.
- AlphaSite 11y agoThey'll probably refurb them and use them as replacement handsets.
- aquark 11y agoLikely since they will still be high end phones, but as a trend this would suppress the price for used phones and just pushes the problem down the chain. The people pikcing up those used phones are likely getting rid of a slightly older one at a higher frequency now and that will still generate more e-waste.
- andrepd 11y agoStill, they won't last forever and will eventually turn into e-waste.
- HappyTypist 11y agoAre you sure? I wouldn't be surprised if Apple TV started using last year iPhone's circuit boards, or iPod touches started using iPhone's battery's.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoUsed iPhones get handed to relatives or sold. I know people using 3rd- or 4th-hand iPhone 4 units, and these came out ~5 years ago. I live in China. Here, a broken iPhone 4 or later will be repaired, not scrapped.