Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9x4gpjdj2o

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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Nah, my old mobile phone is in a drawer in my basement.

oji@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Mine too, all six of them. Just in case.

Bort@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y

Checking in, I got at least six lying around this house. You never know.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

They rest in the boxes they came in.

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

The old batteries can pose a minor fire risk. Haven't worried about that myself tbh

FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi · 2 pts · 1y

Mine too.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 36 pts · 1y (3 replies)

looks at the box with all his old phones in it

"Y'all better not be polluting Thailand!"

ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y

Yep, I have a box with all my cell phones (as well as my wife's phones) going back to 2005 when I was able to get my first one. Man I miss my Razor v3 and the OG Motorola Droid, at least I can still look at them.

ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I still have all of mine as well, including my first: a samsung sph-n200.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y

I haven't had very many, since I take care of my stuff really well and try to get something that will last a long while.

First was a Tmo Sidekick. And I hella wish someone would make a smartphone version of it, with the flip up screen to cover a real keyboard, and a physical scroll wheel. 🤤

Railcar8095@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Let me guess, "corporate greed"?

FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 1y

That's usually the answer to these kind of questions.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
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Xanxia@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

More likely small and medium business greed like we saw it with plastic in China.

terminhell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Would be great if they were easily and cheaply repaired. Nor made "obsolete" in two years via arbitrary updates.

ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

“Why phone companies old mobile phones may be polluting Thailand“

I think that may be a better headline

painteddoggie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Thank you. Everyone either has their old phones in a box under their bed or they traded them in to a COMPANY who apparently proceeded dump them into thialand.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

All my old phones are polluting a box in my basement. They will be inherited to my kids when I die.

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Nope, I've still got every phone I've ever had except for one that I gave away to someone who lost theirs.

card797@champserver.net · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah. My old phones are in my house somewhere.