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kittenTakeover t1_j60gupt wrote

Does anyone know what the long term solution is for technology? If we keep throwing everything into the trash how long until we run out of the most valuable resources needed for important electronics? Anyone know?

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weaselmaster t1_j620h25 wrote

Who throws things in the trash?

My electronics are all recycled - by NYC law, actually.

A bit of a pain in the butt to hold on to old devices and electrical equipment until an electronics recycling day, but even the copper and magnets from random electrical/appliance devices get reused in this way.

Outside of NY, I have to pay a small fee to bring my electronics to a container at the local garbage/recycling center, which then gets transported to a similar electronics recycling/recovery center.

If your town doesn’t have such a facility, you should fight for it!

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kittenTakeover t1_j63kd17 wrote

I think it's much less common for good recycling programs than you think, and I can guarantee that any program that requires people to make a special trip and pay a fee at garbage center is going to do very poorly, regardless of how easy it is.

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insaneintheblain t1_j67dir5 wrote

You assume anyone alive on this planet knows what they are doing.

No one is in charge.

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