And it ain’t going to change a thing as the vast majority of phones are thrown away not because they break but because they are old. I had a Samsung Note 3 that I used for about 7 years and the reason I replaced it wasn’t because it broke but because it was slow, old and apps were starting to not support it.
The reality is that the most e-waste is still perfectly functional, they end up in e-waste is because they are old, slow, power inefficient, etc. Most people focus on the things that failed on them because it’s frustrating and annoying that your expensive thing no longer works but we never think of the substantially more devices that we no longer use simply because we wanted something newer.
And it ain’t going to change a thing as the vast majority of phones are thrown away not because they break but because they are old. I had a Samsung Note 3 that I used for about 7 years and the reason I replaced it wasn’t because it broke but because it was slow, old and apps were starting to not support it.
The reality is that the most e-waste is still perfectly functional, they end up in e-waste is because they are old, slow, power inefficient, etc. Most people focus on the things that failed on them because it’s frustrating and annoying that your expensive thing no longer works but we never think of the substantially more devices that we no longer use simply because we wanted something newer.