What I'm saying is there's probably no reasonable way, given the current state of the art, to create an equivalent product in a more repairable form. The comparison to k-cups seems overblown, as a person throws away a couple of those a day, whereas AirPods are quality devices (of a similar size) that will last years at the minimum.

iFixit rightly makes noise about the pointless unrepairability of some other Apple devices, but this one just feels like they're reaching.

K-cups are absolutely awful for the environment – I'd argue much much worse than Airpods/consumer electronics. Keurig's entire business is built off of throwing plastic away. They even take measures [1] to make sure you can't re-use their pods. And it's not like throwing plastic away is a "necessary evil" of making coffee - no other mainstream method (drip, aeropress, pourover, moka pot, french press) produces waste that isn't compostable.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/3/5465578/keurig-locking-dow...

K-cups are created to be thrown away after one use. AirPods are not.

It is a stretch. Millions of K-Cups are intentionally disposed of daily. I doubt that more than 100 AirPods are disposed of daily, probably closer to 10-20. That will naturally accelerate as they get towards their end of life, but the comparison is ridiculous.

If 10 million airpod units had an average lifespan of 5 years, they would be disposed at a rate of 5480/day.

There’s no question that K-cups are a bigger ecological problem, though.

Gasoline weighs about 6 pounds a gallon. It's made from the same stuff as plastic.

Landfills aren't perfect, but they aren't an ecological nightmare and there's lots of room for them outside of places like New York City.

Landfills absolutely are an ecological nightmare in some parts of the world, and much of it is trash that was shipped in from elsewhere. That your local landfill doesn’t bother you does not mean your trash won’t end up leaching toxic chemicals in to the waterways of people in some far off land.

It'll likely become more of an issue for people numb to the point as these places refuse more and more of our refuse.

I don't put toxic chemicals in my trash though, so there's that.

You absolutely do though, that's the point.

You think that the e-waste you sent to recycling doesn't end up in trash, but you only have to look at places like Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana to see where some supposedly reputable recycling ends up.