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For the planet: Not much better
by VoxPelli 3y ago
For the planet: Not much better
- rootusrootus 3y agoThere's more nuance than that. Total lifetime matters. If the first buyer keeps it 3 years, the next buyer may well keep it 3 more, or even longer.
- arrowsmith 3y agoOr the first buyer keeps it for three years then needlessly throws it away, or (more likely) shoves it in a drawer somewhere until it gets thrown away ten years later.
- globular-toast 3y agoThen the government needs to add those external costs to non-repairable phones to make the Fairphone competitive on price too. Unfortunately the vast majority of people will consider price first.
- VoxPelli 3y agoYes and no, resell value needs to be acknowledged by people buying them just like people do when they eg buy a car But you are right, and the government has done so to some degree, but they did it badly and I believe it also affected refurbished phones, making a phone pay for its production emissions over and over