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   Roger Hayter to UFO   
   Re: Burning old TVs to survive: The toxi   
   02 Dec 24 14:25:02   
   
   From: roger@hayter.org   
      
   On 2 Dec 2024 at 13:40:34 GMT, ""UFO""  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.   
      
   --   
      
   Roger Hayter   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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