Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"

therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You know this stuff isn’t actually recycled, right? It just ends up in a giant toxic burn pit in west Africa and then they have kids with small hands pick through the smoldering wreckage looking for blobs of metals.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Um, no. Love, somewhere with actual regulations.

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    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Regulations cost money. African labor is cheap. Don’t worry, the market will sort it out…

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not in the US.

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    • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lmao my sweet summer child

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        US bubble, much?

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  • therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you don’t recycle it properly yea that will happen

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Or reusing, perfectly functional hardware doesn’t need to be gotten rid of

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• downhomechunk@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are charities around me that take old laptops, put chromeOS on them and give to low income folks.

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• amon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Give it to me and it won’t take a single joule of energy to recycle plus it’s still useful

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