Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand

Comments

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  looks at the box with all his old phones in it

  “Y’all better not be polluting Thailand!”

  source

  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep, I have a box with all my cell phones (as well as my wife’s phones) going back to 2005 when I was able to get my first one. Man I miss my Razor v3 and the OG Motorola Droid, at least I can still look at them.

    source
  • ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have all of mine as well, including my first: a samsung sph-n200.

    source

    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I haven’t had very many, since I take care of my stuff really well and try to get something that will last a long while.

      First was a Tmo Sidekick. And I hella wish someone would make a smartphone version of it, with the flip up screen to cover a real keyboard, and a physical scroll wheel. 🤤

      source
• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nah, my old mobile phone is in a drawer in my basement.

  source

  • oji@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Mine too, all six of them. Just in case.

    source

    • Bort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Checking in, I got at least six lying around this house. You never know.

      source
  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They rest in the boxes they came in.

    source
  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The old batteries can pose a minor fire risk. Haven’t worried about that myself tbh

    source
  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Mine too.

    source
• terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would be great if they were easily and cheaply repaired. Nor made “obsolete” in two years via arbitrary updates.

  source
• Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let me guess, “corporate greed”?

  source

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s usually the answer to these kind of questions.

    source
  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also: Useless/Corrupt/Evil politicians

    source
  • Xanxia@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More likely small and medium business greed like we saw it with plastic in China.

    source
• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Why phone companies old mobile phones may be polluting Thailand“

  I think that may be a better headline

  source

  • painteddoggie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you. Everyone either has their old phones in a box under their bed or they traded them in to a COMPANY who apparently proceeded dump them into thialand.

    source
• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nope, I’ve still got every phone I’ve ever had except for one that I gave away to someone who lost theirs.

  source