A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less than a quarter of it.
  • auth@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    We need phones that don’t break so easily and we should be able to repair them and replace the battery, at the very least.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    E-waste will continue to be a problem until companies are forced to make products that are designed to be repaired and upgraded without replacing them.

    We have certification for safety and compliance, why not one that guarantees that an electronic product can be fully repaired by the end user using readily available (and affordable!) parts? It can be on a scale from 1 to 10, and the less repairable the item, the more restricted its distribution should be.

    Every laptop should be made like a Framework laptop; every phone like a Fairphone. Every electronic product should certified to have long life.

    • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Hardware is not even the biggest issue imho. Software/firmware is even much worse. How is it possible to sell a phone that does not even get updates for 5 years. And why is Fairphone, Google Pixel and iPhone standing out with only 5 ish years.

      Luckily the EU is currently working on that.

      • scorpionix@feddit.de
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        5 months ago

        IMO its fine for vendors to abandon their products but they should be required to release all technical documentation and software used with the device into the public domain so enthusiasts can continue where companies stopped.