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Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place. A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex pro
by badtension 3y ago
Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place.
A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially non-recyclable. A lot of the elements that went into making the 2010s state of the art electronics are now lost in landfills, never to be recovered or reused again.
- fsflover 3y ago> Don't forget "refuse". I don't see how it's different from "reduce": you have to refuse to reduce.
- ASalazarMX 3y agoI think the intention was pointing out that reduce implies you consume only the things you need, while refuse means you'll deliberately refuse wasteful things even if you need them. For example, smarthome lighting. The lightbulbs could be dumb, and all the smarts could live in the lightswitches, that would reduce waste. Conversely, the traditional smarthome lighting approach is very wasteful, every lightbulb is a small computer, and who knows what percent of the discarded lightbulbs gets recycled.
- nebula8804 3y ago>A lot of the elements that went into making the 2010s state of the art electronics are now lost in landfills, never to be recovered or reused again. Can you name some examples?
- dopamean 3y agoI often wonder where all the ipods went.
- nebula8804 3y agoDon't think iPods are anything special, they are just small computers: they have CPU, ram, storage and a battery. I'd imagine they mostly went into e-cycling just like the billions of cellphones that are scrapped. They are similar sizes to cell phones.