ThibApr 19, 2024

Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.

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@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome

I worked for a company called ITRenew and we had an internal startup called Sesame. We trying to save carbon footprint by replacing the bios with Linuxboot and coreboot extending the life of hyper scale equipment. We need to do the same with phones. We are just creating waste

Feb 26 at 3:31amTusky