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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by usaphp on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:39PM (#24681236)
> ship them to a developing country or somewhere else

Wouldn't it be worse for the planet? First - shipping these across the globe is also destroying the planet. Secondly - many developing countries are not really recycling old electronics, they just dump them into the wasteland, which makes it even worse for the planet.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by searchableguy on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#24681277)
Developed countries are worse. They don't recycle or reuse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china...

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by bluejekyll on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#24681283)
I think the parent comment meant that those countries could use the old phones, not recycle them—refurbish and resell.
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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by ictebres on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#24681280)
Yeah, lets not have them have the same luxuries as us so that they do not repeat our mistakes. \s
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