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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前

Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand

www.bbc.com

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Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand

www.bbc.com

Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前
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The Asian nation is importing thousands of tonnes of electronic waste per year, despite a ban.
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    4 天前

    looks at the box with all his old phones in it

    “Y’all better not be polluting Thailand!”

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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      Yep, I have a box with all my cell phones (as well as my wife’s phones) going back to 2005 when I was able to get my first one. Man I miss my Razor v3 and the OG Motorola Droid, at least I can still look at them.

    • ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world
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      I still have all of mine as well, including my first: a samsung sph-n200.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        I haven’t had very many, since I take care of my stuff really well and try to get something that will last a long while.

        First was a Tmo Sidekick. And I hella wish someone would make a smartphone version of it, with the flip up screen to cover a real keyboard, and a physical scroll wheel. 🤤

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    Nah, my old mobile phone is in a drawer in my basement.

    • oji@lemmy.world
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      Mine too, all six of them. Just in case.

      • bort@sh.itjust.works
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        Checking in, I got at least six lying around this house. You never know.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      They rest in the boxes they came in.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      The old batteries can pose a minor fire risk. Haven’t worried about that myself tbh

    • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
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      Mine too.

  • Jimmybander@champserver.net
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    Yeah. My old phones are in my house somewhere.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    All my old phones are polluting a box in my basement. They will be inherited to my kids when I die.

  • terminhell@lemmy.world
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    Would be great if they were easily and cheaply repaired. Nor made “obsolete” in two years via arbitrary updates.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    Let me guess, “corporate greed”?

    • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
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      That’s usually the answer to these kind of questions.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      Also: Useless/Corrupt/Evil politicians

    • Xanx@lemmy.zip
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      More likely small and medium business greed like we saw it with plastic in China.

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    “Why phone companies old mobile phones may be polluting Thailand“

    I think that may be a better headline

    • painteddoggie@lemmy.world
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      Thank you. Everyone either has their old phones in a box under their bed or they traded them in to a COMPANY who apparently proceeded dump them into thialand.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    Nope, I’ve still got every phone I’ve ever had except for one that I gave away to someone who lost theirs.

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