The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
www.wired.com The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less than a quarter of it.
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I feel a law that would go a long way would be to force companies to release code, drivers, and designs of any product they no longer support. That includes Intellectual Property. If you no longer support a product, then you don't need the IP used on it.
We either get everything we need to use EOL products however we want, or companies support products much longer to protect their IP.
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