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This seems like a serious issue for the environment by forcing hardware into landfills. I wonder what the landscape is like in Europe for things like this. I k
by ListenLinda 7y ago
This seems like a serious issue for the environment by forcing hardware into landfills.
I wonder what the landscape is like in Europe for things like this. I know some countries are more diligent about physical products having a longer useful life than others.
- ianai 7y agoHere’s a thought: require such manufactures to completely recycle their discarded equipment. Suddenly reselling their ‘old’ equipment as refurbished at lower costs is a cost cutting option.
- Silhouette 7y agoThere already are quite strict rules along those lines in the EU. For example, here's the UK's interpretation: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and...
- jdnenej 7y agoHow does that work? Does the user have to pay to send it back to the manufacturer or does the user have to pay? If the user does I can see a lot of them throwing it in the bin because it's cheaper. Also recycling often means just melting down the metal case and binning all of the insides.
- ianai 7y agoYou can make a market of it. Make it possible to transfer the obligations of recycling to third parties with necessary oversight and assets necessary to do the job completely. The responsibility still stays with the manufacturer. etc. see the comment with a link
- throwaway2048 7y agoThen everything gets shipped off to some third world country to be burned or land filled via a company that has Certified Recycling(tm)
- yrro 7y agoThis is already the case in the EU thanks to the WEEE directive. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/product-innovation-stewardship/product-recycling/weee-compliance.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/product-innovation-stewa...