related/recent article from the Times: The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/e-waste-thaila...
The dark side of electronic waste recycling
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Re: The dark side of electronic waste recycling
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no for-profit motive to justify recycling of much, that's true. However, recycling can still work well if there's money built in to the price of items for recycling what they're made of. In other words, a surcharge built into the cost of e.g. a flatscreen monitor for recycling is held in escrow during the device's lifetime. When it's end of life, the company that recycles it can claim that charge as part of i…
There's no way this would work practically. For one thing: an escrow system?! Who's going to pay for that? Secondly no politician is going to create a bill which makes electronics far more expensive. That's not corruption, it's simply not wanting to piss off your constituents.
Have you ever heard of deposits on soda bottles?
It's quite doable.
Re: The dark side of electronic waste recycling
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no for-profit motive to justify recycling of much, that's true. However, recycling can still work well if there's money built in to the price of items for recycling what they're made of. In other words, a surcharge built into the cost of e.g. a flatscreen monitor for recycling is held in escrow during the device's lifetime. When it's end of life, the company that recycles it can claim that charge as part of i…
There is no way the CCP is going to legislate that into reality. There is no way the US Congress is going to further handicap American industry with what then amounts to another subsidy to China. It's not a solution. Nor is barring e-waste exports a solution. That material will end up in landfill. Terrible idea.
>There is no way the CCP is going to legislate that into reality.
Not the CCP, the US government. That's why I mentioned the corruption of it being a problem.
E-waste from the US should be kept in the US where we can ensure it's recycled properly, not shipped overseas to make a quick buck.
China's lack of regulation and pollution is another problem entirely.