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Except that without certifications like this costs of waste, environmental degradation etc. become externalities for the companies and individuals involved. It'
by bigfudge 14y ago
Except that without certifications like this costs of waste, environmental degradation etc. become externalities for the companies and individuals involved. It's not viable to dump laptops in a landfill batteries and all, so who is going to pay to remove the glue from the new MBA battery? (I know, apple says they will, but they don't have to and only do so for marketing purposes).
- javert 14y agoWhy isn't it viable to dump laptops with batteries in a landfill?
- antidoh 14y agoBatteries leak heavy metals and other chemicals, which then leach through the soil into the surrounding land, and into water supplies. Yum.
- javert 14y agoSo create a startup that runs landfills where the chemicals don't leak.
- toomuchcoffee 14y ago...but until that happens (if it ever does), presumably you're in 100% agreement that we'll need to make sure that batteries, and other toxic components of personal computing industry end up somewhere besides unprotected landfills. Which is, of course, precisely the point of SF's decision not to support products that don't appear to have such safeguards built into their lifecycle.