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Compared to replacing electronics or making a dent in food waste, I wonder how a few pieces of particleboard furniture every few years stack up.
by SargeDebian 3y ago
Compared to replacing electronics or making a dent in food waste, I wonder how a few pieces of particleboard furniture every few years stack up.
- massysett 3y agoIt's so easy to see a large piece of furniture in the trash and think "OMG so much waste" and to toss a 10-year-old Android tablet in the trash and think "no big deal," but of course I have no idea how much more metals, plastics, waste, etc. went into that old tablet. It just seems like less waste because the volume and weight is smaller - but the disposing user doesn't see how much the manufacturing process consumed. It would be interesting to see some sort of resource that compares waste in this manner.