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Humane’s Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world’s global e-waste problem.

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      There’s an e-waste recycling fee tacked onto some electronics (TVs mostly I think) in Canada. Maybe it needs to be expanded to other things?

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        It should be expanded to everything. Why do we allow corporations to build things that can’t be recycled, and not have them pay for the waste management of the products they create? Taxing them for hard to recycle packaging and products would spur them to create more sustainable alternatives. Why do we let consumers buy shit but distribute the cost of their waste management across all tax payers? Consumers should be charged extra for buying products which are hard to dispose of.

        NOTE: you just charge the companies for the waste management of their products, which will be passed onto consumers.

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        5 hours ago

        if you set up something like this, they would have to pay at the time of manufacturing.

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        8 hours ago

        If only we had a way to collect money from companies as they operate. Damn.

        Edit: I know you said in this case, but taxing companies for this makes sense and needs to be said