I just recently finished reading about the history of the kinescope. This device was a camera that recorded live broadcasts from a studio monitor. It was meant

I just recently finished reading about the history of the kinescope. This device was a camera that recorded live broadcasts from a studio monitor. It was meant to distribute live content quickly for playback outside of local TV networks. Many different kinescopes were made. All of them had slightly different film. Almost no content from kinescopes exist anymore. So I think "consider[ing] the negative externalities of generating massive amounts of e-waste" is a pretty old problem! (When DuMont, a major TV network, folded, they dumped all of theirs into the New York Bay!)