It was absolutely a strawman for two reasons a) because I never said the digital credentials became property of the recycler, or was legal. You insinuated I did

It was absolutely a strawman for two reasons a) because I never said the digital credentials became property of the recycler, or was legal. You insinuated I did. That's moreover irrelevant because e-waste is often shipped outside of the US or EU, leaves their jurisdiction, ends up in LDCs, and goes through multiple intermediaries ( think like the Toyota "ISIS truck" case). The other part of the strawman is b) nobody said anything about a "proposal for a business practice", you invented that, honestly no idea why. It's the opposite of what I meant: that individuals at any point in that chain could do questionable stuff. We can conjecture all we want about the legal basis of accessing digital media that has been donated and shipped abroad to be recycled/landfilled, esp. in an untraceable way to countries without much rule of law; there are tons of reasons why this is unlikely to see the inside of a courtroom in a hurry.