Yeah, I guess you’re right. Better just grind them to dust and recycle the metals.
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clb92@feddit.dk 2 months agoYou 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.
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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.