Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Meanwhile, people in the west are hoarding old 3G phones in their bedroom drawers. Come on people! You’re using a 5G phone, but somehow you can’t get rid of the old 4G, 3G and even 2G phones. How about you give them away? It’s not like anyone will pay anything for them anyway.
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 1 month ago
It’s yet another systemic issue, reflective of wider systemic issues. It’s not helpful to place the blame or demands on individuals.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
So, maybe there could be a government program for collecting old electronics and shipping them to places where people would still use them.
clb92@feddit.dk 1 month ago
You can’t even buy working batteries for a most of the old phones I have in my drawer.
The idea is nice, but such a government program would either end up just shipping tons of broken electronics to third world countries, or spending more money testing old electronics compared to what it would cost to buy new cheap feature phones for people in those third world countries.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Or governement hadn’t been such little incompetent shits the battery dimensions would be standardized and have become commodities. And phones made irreperable would means fines in excess of all profits made on those phones.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Better just grind them to dust and recycle the metals.