Re: Burning old TVs to survive: The toxic trade in electrical waste

On 2 Dec 2024 at 13:40:34 GMT, ""UFO"" <tech@parts-link.net> wrote:

We try to but since China makes them now as throw away
non repairable cheap goods and sells them global, they should
be who leads the cleanup.

This is wildly untrue. What makes things "throw away" is that we can make them
so cheaply that the labour to repair them is too expensive for it to be
economic. But modern electronic goods are orders of magnitude more reliable
than the consumer electronic goods of yesteryear, so the problem is *not* the
quality of the goods.

What needs investing in the safe recycling of electronic parts, and I would
suggest that both consumers and manufacturers should be responsible for this.

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Roger Hayter