Mother earth advertising beg to differ /s
Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair
whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Right to repair also has an environmental angle. Consider which one uses more resources and likely produces more pollution:
- The RAM in your laptop dies, you take it to a repair shop, they swap out the dead RAM. Dead RAM goes in the bin, laptop has years of life left in it
- The RAM in your Macbook dies, the RAM is soldered to the board, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new one, and when a single component in the new Macbook dies, lather, rinse, repeat
Considering how much extra e-waste is generated when people can’t repair things, there’s really no way to buy Apple and call yourself an environmentalist.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
theherk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I really hope neither Apple nor any other repair shop simply casts electronic components in the bin. My expectation in both cases is that the components are recycled, at least for precious metals.
VinS@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I don’t have this optimism 😅
BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Oh, you’re a sustainable Apple user? Show me your reflow oven.