Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month agoSo, maybe there could be a government program for collecting old electronics and shipping them to places where people would still use them.
Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month agoSo, 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Better just grind them to dust and recycle the metals.