Mastodawn

I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.

Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?

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Anne Ominous Jul 16

@gerrymcgovern

there are NFC chips in at least some ctities' metro tickets, maybe many?

i know boston and montreal both use paper, disposable tickets with chips in them

they are useful i guess, but one would think they'd have some better methods with less waste

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Shaun McDonald

@rustoleumlove @gerrymcgovern the Glasgow Subway has disposable metro cards with a chip in them. If only they supported normal payment cards it would stop the e-waste. At least they provide a discount when using the ITSO card, however you can't get one ITSO card that works across the whole country as the systems are incompatible, except some mostly neighbouring systems.