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By refusing to make parts, manuals or repair software available to independent repair providers or users, companies prevent you from having what you need to fix your stuff. It turns out that the companies that make our smartphones, actively block repair of those devices. 21, 2018, file photo customers wait in line outside of the Apple Store at the Garden State Plaza on the day the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max were released in Paramus, N.J. And yet, we treat these phones as if they are disposable. Sci-fi writers couldn’t even imagine technology that useful. The futuristic explorers on “Star Trek” needed at least five different devices to do what a single smartphone does today. America has more than 2,500 landfills to accommodate our waste.Īnd it’s not only the highly-publicized single-use plastic straws and cups: Americans throw away 416,000 cell phones every day 151.8 million phones trashed in a single year. Every year, the world produces 1.3 billion tons of waste, and the number is climbing quickly. Literally.įrom plastic coating the ocean floor, to recycling systems over-run with too much waste, to melting ice caps, the consequences of a throwaway economy are getting harder and harder to ignore. It’s a great system if you’re selling new things - especially things people don’t need. But the downsides are piling up. Make, use and toss, the story goes - and then, of course, buy more. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP) This article is more than 3 years old. European Union nations are expected to produce more than 12 million tons of electronic waste per year by 2020. In this photo taken on July 13, 2018, old mobile phones fill a bin at the Out Of Use company warehouse in Beringen, Belgium.
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