4 ms·
The thought is kind of horrifying, but you could even make it a closed process - send your old phone to the factory, where it's burned to produce the plastics f
by icebraining 8y ago
The thought is kind of horrifying, but you could even make it a closed process - send your old phone to the factory, where it's burned to produce the plastics for your new phone.
- mrguyorama 8y agoThat would open up a pretty good avenue for "recycling" then, and could possibly reduce waste plastic in the environment
- codethief 8y agoAs I learned today in another thread [1], the only problem would be that plastic is usually doped with additional elements that I assume we would somehow have to deal with when burning it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845427
- stordoff 8y agoWhy is this horrifying? Is there some part of this I'm missing here?
- icebraining 8y agoIt just feels wrong to burn this stuff as part of an established cycle.