Electronic-waste crisis: Pollutants put environment and public health at risk
https://nation.africa/kenya/climate/pollutants-ewaste-environment-public-health-at-risk-5421588
E-waste is fasting growing waste in the world and hugely toxic. Like plastic, much of Global North e-waste is dumped in Global South.
Waste colonialism
@gerrymcgovern Just don't buy new stuff.
Forget about all the repurposing and handing-it-on bullshit. _You_ are still complicit in trashing the "planet".
Certainly and under no circumstances buy replacement cos the older is just ... not the must-have any more.
My fav lifestyle line was "Got a new car coming tomo, the ashtray on this one is full".
Repair if it's easy - broken plastic or cable etc. Go out of your way and pay to get skilled repairs on tricky stuff.
I try to live this way, but especially the last part - finding skilled persons for tricky stuff - get`s harder year over year. I upskilled myself for many things, but there are some things I do not want to touch.
Actual example: I have a solar-heated garden shower. Through winter it developed a thin crack (yes, my fault) and is leaking. This needs welding. I do not weld, and I do not want to. But no professional comes for such a small task...
@RomanVilgut
The skills to repair things, as you say, are key, and we are losing them.
At some point in the not so distant future, when this whole capitalist edifice collapses, we will desperately need those skills again. Maintaining key skills across generations is going to be vital.
Gerry McGovern
SolaršGarden
Roman Vilgut