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Planned Obsolescence: Not Just Hard on Your Wallet
There is a reason it's often cheaper to replace a broken electronic gadget than to fix it - the tech industry planned it that way. The unfortunate consumer cycle of want, buy, upgrade, replace, discard is a very... Innovation? How About Just Taking Out the Trash?
"500 million tons of electronic trash is generated worldwide every year and the earth is starting to strangle on all this electronic detritus. [...] It’s got a cute name: e-waste [...,] but it's a particularly malignant form of pollution, with high levels of toxins."
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