If you don’t recycle it properly yea that will happen
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ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoYou 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.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Um, no. Love, somewhere with actual regulations.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Regulations cost money. African labor is cheap. Don’t worry, the market will sort it out…
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not in the US.
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
lol yours goes there too I promise.
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Lmao my sweet summer child
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
US bubble, much?
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Nope. I’m currently in England and a lot of it they burn with the rest of our garbage too. Other places here still ship it to the third world.