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Agreed, but weren't you claiming earlier that poor countries are responsible for 100% of the plastic waste problem?
by Clewza313 6y ago
Agreed, but weren't you claiming earlier that poor countries are responsible for 100% of the plastic waste problem?
- rsj_hn 6y agoI think that's a good approximation. The volume of computer parts or used phones isn't significant compared to the total volume of waste produced domestically in these nations. But it's a separate tragedy that companies like Apple can pay partners to "recycle" stuff that ends up in a landfill in Nigeria somewhere, or manually stripped of copper and other parts by people working in unsafe conditions.