I have a feeling if I lit truck load of old computers on fire in a quarry or something, arguing “When you think about it most of the e-waste was just metal PC cases so it doesn’t count” would not fly in court.
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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI imagine most of that weight isn’t the actual electronics, but the housing.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was not the point of my post.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What was then?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just that the number may be quite inflated, when referring to electronics. It’s still bad. Especially as someone else pointed out that the housing may be problematic as well.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The housing isn’t great to be burning either.
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