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They were all going to be trashed after a few years anyway.
by reverius42 3y ago
They were all going to be trashed after a few years anyway.
- mrguyorama 3y agoOh no, electronic waste doesn't get trashed, it gets shipped to africa where people with no other options dig through actual lead and other poison filled piles of discarded electronics for anything that might be sellable to a scrapper for the equivalent of a few pennies to pay for something to stop their belly from rumbling for a few hours. Look how efficient capitalism is guys! We reuse the metals in electronics! The buyers even get to make a tidy profit off this absolute human misery! Meanwhile Ukraine can't export it's grain because we refuse to give them the tools to fight off Russia, Alfalfa continues to be grown in a natural desert to be sold to another desert, and a person you have never heard of who has contributed nothing to anything other than a few meetings between other rich people who nobody has heard of takes their private plane across state lines so they can go to their favorite place for dinner.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoWait, you're saying not everyone has a drawer full of old phones, chargers, and similar junk?
- mrguyorama 3y agoNo, some people believe they are doing "the right thing" and putting the in kiosks that say "recycling" at their nearest grocery store! They usually don't know that there's not really a first world system for recycling anything more complicated than a mono-material aluminum beverage can so it just gets sent to an african community where what I described above happens and the people running the kiosk make a little money by selling it to whoever runs those "recycling" centers in africa.