Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 2 months agoIt’s yet another systemic issue, reflective of wider systemic issues. It’s not helpful to place the blame or demands on individuals.
Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 2 months agoIt’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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Better just grind them to dust and recycle the metals.