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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by distances on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:37AM (#29700654)
> Will leach poison into the ground.

Electronics must not be disposed with general waste, I'd imagine all Western municipalities have special recycling programs for electrical devices. Not sure if they'd be that happy to receive used covid test kits though.

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by tssva on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:45AM (#29702053)
About 42% of e-waste is recycled in the EU and about 15% in the US. Even those numbers don't reflect reality since a large percentage of "recycled e-waste" is shipped off to poor countries where it may or may not be strip of some parts before being dumped.
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by pjmlp on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:51AM (#29700744)
They do, except many don't use them as much and is quite common to find electronics on the containers.
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