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I've definitely noticed how lead-free solder looks/feel much more brittle. So the EU is basically guilty of vastly increasing E-Waste for most of the electronic

I've definitely noticed how lead-free solder looks/feel much more brittle. So the EU is basically guilty of vastly increasing E-Waste for most of the electronics made in the last 20 years (which is probably is more than we've made in the time before).

GekkePrutser 4y ago
This is not the only thing that happened in the last two decades. Everyone started manufacturing for the lowest possible price in China and started designing for planned obsolescence. In my opinion these were much larger factors in e-waste.