Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by ksk on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:13PM (#16439166)

That applies to computers and all of the other un-repairable ewaste generating electronics. All purchases of smartphones, laptops, in fact pretty much all of bestbuy would fall in that category. Can we get a ban on those too?

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by emodendroket on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:39PM (#16440070)

I'd argue that disposable bags, disposable straws, disposable chopsticks, and the like are in a different category because there is a ready alternative which is not particularly onerous to use.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by ksk on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:21PM (#16441022)

You're quite right. But, how many tech people do you think are willing to inconvenience themselves with a heavy laptop or a bulky smartphone if it meant that they were repairable? My opinion is that the vast majority will continue to line up to buy the latest shiny use-and-throw bauble from TechCompanyX, while railing against coal and plastics. I'm just against the "Do as I say, not as I do" mindset.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by emodendroket on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:09PM (#16441942)

Are tech people uniquely unlikely to use plastic bags? I don't really understand the logic here, and a laptop that is appreciably worse seems like the wrong analogy to a canvas bag.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by walshemj on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:55PM (#16441807)

Just get apple to sack Jony Ive, introduce a new apple with a rugged brutalist style and make a feature of making it be repairable (with only apple Tm parts).

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