#ewaste #plannedobsolescence #resourceextraction #righttorepair #lessismore #jasonhickel #elevateeconomics #degrowth #postgrowth #sustainability #economics
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That’s like throwing 800 laptops away per second (The World Counts) Tech companies sold a total of 13bn smartphones between 2010 and 2019. Only about 3 billion are in use today. This means 10 billion smartphones (which contain valuable hardware) were just thrown away (Data source: Stastista.com). That’s a huge amount of natural resource extraction…
