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Are you happy with your creation of e-waste? Seriously, a phone a year...

• bombcar 3y ago
  Unless he's smashing the old phone with a sledgehammer, it doesn't cease to exist. That he's given money for the trade-in indicates it's refurbished and sold used to someone else, so the total waste is reduced, perhaps even more so than someone who buys top of the line phones, and after three years puts them in a drawer and buys a new one (because the trade in value is almost nothing and/or by then it's cracked, etc).
  • ghusto 3y ago
    I think the point is that if people like him didn't keep buying new phone unnecessarily, then there would be less phone being manufactured unnecessarily. The fact that he sells it on doesn't change that.
    • bombcar 3y ago
      More likely supply would just be constrained - up to some point. Just like the supply of housing isn’t increased unless more people buy new ones. Of course, at some point people start throwing working phones away.