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

On 2024-12-02 18:30, Ralph Mowery wrote:

In article <4950251152.1f610978@uninhabited.net>, roger@hayter.org
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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.
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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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 Just like the tire pressure monitors.  Lots of labor just to replace
them.  I just do without on my cars when they fail.

I disagree. I had a puncture during a highway trip a month ago, and the monitor told me about it. I would have not noticed myself and would have damaged the rubber.
First puncture in 40 years.
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Cheers, Carlos.