[HN Gopher] E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022 ___________________________________________________________________ E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022 Author : kitkat_new Score : 22 points Date : 2022-10-15 22:39 UTC (21 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com) | throwawaaarrgh wrote: | Recycle your electronics: | https://www.consumerreports.org/recycling/how-to-recycle-ele... | | I bought a certified refurbished phone recently that works as | good as new (with a new battery) but is cheaper than a new phone. | Even has a new IMEI. The side effect is it's better for the | environment. https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/certified-re- | newed-ph... | formerkrogemp wrote: | A problem with phones is that the software is only updates for | a few years on Android. One to three at best.. | raincom wrote: | I'm not so sure about this. I had apple replace battery on my | iPhone 8 Plus. Battery life is not good compared to my iPhone | 12. | frfl wrote: | How do you know if a refurbished device has a new battery? | whimsicalism wrote: | Five billion seems extremely high - are there really people who | go through so many phones in a year that they raise the number up | to this? | twawaaay wrote: | I think the same. The number seems completely unrealistic. | | I don't know of any person who retires one phone every year. | | Also, a lot of phones get second life, being usually passed | within families or sold used. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-15 23:00 UTC)