Join the fight for the right to repair. Manufacturers (I’m looking at you, Apple) have been removing the ability of end users to repair their own stuff and making it more difficult for independent repair shops to do their jobs. Repairing stuff goes a long way in keeping electronics out of land fills.
But repairing can be understood as “reusing”, but there’s a first step before reusing, it’s reducing. Basically, stop buying shit that you don’t need. If you don’t buy it, it won’t be manufactured, so it won’t end up as e-waste.
If people minded more the reduce and reuse, recycling wouldn’t be as needed.
But Apple allows repairs using ridiculously expensive repair kits you can rent. /s
Is it cost 49$ to rent a toolkit for 7 day ?
Reintroducing removable cell phone batteries is a big start, and ending this shitty culture around buying a new phone every 2 years that is functionally identical to your existing phone.
Fairphone 🙂
Tell your local government that when they plan out for a new program to double whatever the real number is going to be in terms of volume.
Seen a few of these programs fail because they didn’t size the process enough. The only risk of going over is more upfront cost. Long term if everything is running undercapacity you will get more years and a lot less downtime.
Full disclosure I directly benefit from these programs.
I am doing my part by hoarding Sony trinitrons and PVMs.
