For my part, I hate anything explicitly labeled "disposable". As the author writes, you're supposed to recycle it, but how many people will do that if it has "disposable" written on it? Even worse, if it was truly disposable they could use a non-rechargeable battery, but because they have to keep up the pretense of it being reusable, they have to include a rechargeable battery with more dodgy chemistry that probably shouldn't end up in a landfill...

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eru an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Why recycle things that you can make them cheaper, with less resources and in higher quality from scratch?

(The above is not so much about processors, but about plastics. As long as we are still burning any fossil fuels at all, we are probably better off holding off on recycling and instead burning the plastic for electricity to use ever so slightly less new fossil fuels for power, and instead use the virgin fossil fuels to make new plastics.

Especially considering the extra logistics and quality degradation that recycling entails.

Directly re-using plastic bottles a few times might still be worth it, though.)

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pbhjpbhj 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

Is that a genuine question, or are you parodying an ignorant point of view?

The World has limited resources, we don't have a spare.

Do you need it spelling out more clearly?

	▲	eru 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We are sitting on ball of matter of roughly 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. We have a giant nuclear furnace in the centre of the solar system that's providing us with energy.

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adrianN 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To make matters worse, recycling is a scam (with a small handful of exceptions).

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rjh29 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Varies widely across country and the type of thing you're recycling. People are so extreme with recycling, it's either "recycle everything!" or "it's a scam, just chuck it all in the garbage"

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adrianN 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’m relatively sure that electronics are not recycled properly anywhere. At best some of the metals are extracted (hopefully not by mixing the ashes with mercury).

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vasco 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It varies very widely indeed. In some countries it isn't a scam because it gets burned like Denmark but other than that majority of recycling just means shipping it to a landfill in a poor country that they promise to recycle.

	▲	chpatrick 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In Hungary it gets sorted out locally. We also recently implemented a bottle return system that (although it's annoying) produces clean stacks of PET, aluminium and glass, all of which are recyclable.
	▲	eru an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Well, it depends a lot on material. Metals, especially aluminum, get widely recycled because it actually makes financial sense. Plastics, well, you are probably better off burning them for electricity.
	▲	nandomrumber an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> because it gets burned I wouldn’t really call that recycling.

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stmL 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you elaborate on that?

Edit: I'm actually curious l, i don't know how recycling supposed to work for electronics and how it can be a scam.

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mngnt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This youtube video explains why plastic recycling exists, how it's mostly ineffective and why is it a scam created to normalize one-use plastic. This basically applies to electronics and others. "Why would I reuse or reduce, I can buy, consume an recycle".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g

	▲	pbhjpbhj 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Tax CEOs of vape companies the percentage of their vapes that their company doesn't physically retrieve from customers to be recycled ...

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csomar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> As the author writes, you're supposed to recycle it, but how many people will do that if it has "disposable" written on it?

You need to offer an incentive (ie: discount on new vape if you recycle) and then, from my experience, most people will recycle.