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E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tech is becoming more difficult to repair as well. Had a phone that somehow got its WiFi broken. Did everything I could do software wise, so I concluded it was something with the hardware.

Asked a repair shop what they could do. Well they could replace the entire board with CPU and everything, but that’s going to cost about the same as buying a new phone. The choice was easy.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Tech is becoming more difficult to repair as well

There's a bit of sanity in the world: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/rules-promoting-repair-goods_en