The tragic costs of e-waste

[@ALulzyApprentice]

"Right to Repair" is an important aspect of preventing e-waste. Something many do not want you to do easily.

[@TheIVJackal]

It's bizarre to me that an easily replaceable battery is considered revolutionary these days... Many phones had this just a few years ago, some would have extra batteries so they could easily swap them while outside. I bought a replacement for my Samsung Galaxy S5 and it was under $10! Right to Repair seems to be catching some strength, I hope it lasts.

[@Xeonerable]

Unsustainable capitalism and constant need for growth produces all the trash. Repairing something is cheaper than buying new, and if you aren't buying new then you are hurting those precious corporation's profit margins.

[@xxfyrezgamerxx6279]

​​@@TheIVJackal same here, i replaced the battery in my s21 ultra with genuine samsung parts, battery was genuine and the rear adhesive was also genuine samsung has been selling repair parts to 3rd party companies for quite a while now.

[@da_pwo]

This is crazy, I have this 15 yr old laptop and I plan on upgrading its ram and maybe battery, I’m pretty sure chromebooks have both of those soddered in, still useful parts that cant be extracted to be put into something else unlike the old ones

[@Querlos]

Problem is that this solution does not sale.

[@oceanwoods]

Thank you CBS Sunday Morning! This is so important for people to see. Especially at this consumerism time of year.

[@bobsturgis4674]

A shorter version of these should be a commercial, during the Super Bowl. So everyone can see where there electronics go.

[@Jacob-seek-Jesus-123]

@@bobsturgis4674 Absolutely agree with you! Definitely High Fives on that! 🙌 😊

[@edwardroche2480]

Spoken like a true oil lobbyist

[@justinx9892]

@@bobsturgis4674bruh if they weren’t doing this they’d be doing something else that’s dangerous.

[@danadominguez5760]

7:14 "It's *your* waste, so don't just ship it to us and tell us it's second-hand." What a great quote.

[@MrRussian187]

THEY ARE SELLING IT YOU DONT GET IT FREE

[@MelaniaSideWigga]

Hey Ghana, or rather the 0.1- percenters in Ghanawho are buying the waste and profiting by making their people bear the hazards of e-waste, Stop Saying 'Yes' every time somebody wants to dump this stuff on your shores. if the price of dumping this crap gets too expensive, that opens up an opportunity for something to be done about it. There are a million ways for your people to earn a living & grow your economy - Stop defaulting to the most deadly,low wage & long-term, destructive method of making a living. Don't just cry that you're the victim. you're a willing participant.

[@bbygrlpt2]

My mom bought a plasma tv in 2008 and it started malfunctioning this yr. We got it fixed for $210 and it was totally worth it. Its from Japan unlike the cheap tvs now from China. We also found the original remote from a website where they refurbish old devices and sells them. Its like she got a new tv now.

[@ILovePancakes24]

For that money you could've had a new one.

[@bbygrlpt2]

@@ILovePancakes24 Yea a cheap Chinese one.

[@Rust_Rust_Rust]

​@@bbygrlpt2nope you actually could have gotten one a few years old rather than using a 15 year old TV 😂

[@bbygrlpt2]

@@Rust_Rust_Rust Nah none are worth it.

[@Rust_Rust_Rust]

@@bbygrlpt2 Admit it you got scammed 🤣

[@clover121bee]

Unfortunate that the Samsung spokesperson claims 'All' parties are responsible for reducing waste when they create disposable products and decide when software is obsolete.

[@AdamNeal]

Please keep creating stories like this! I live in the United States and have friends that are Apple fans that immediately upgrade every year or other year and don't care what happens to it when they trade it in or trash it. It's a very serious issue and I have been using my phones and computers until they stop for decades. My last Android phone lasted 4 years before the battery died and I couldn't find a replacement. I love what Fairphone is doing and will choose them for my next phone!

[@susannpatton2893]

They designed them that way, marketing is paid handsomely to make the commercial that makes you want to stand in line for it every 6 months? Shameful. They are laughing all the way to the bank and people just follow

[@susannpatton2893]

I kept one so long the tech surpassed it, and it wouldn't hook up anymore. I had to buy another

[@jeromeglick]

@@susannpatton2893 I used an iPhone 4S from 2012 to 2023. My dad used his Dell Dimension 4300s desktop from 2001 to 2020 (single-core processor couldn't handle Zoom calls). Our water heater is from 1996, our refrigerator from 1990, our vacuum cleaner from 1989, and clothes dryer from 1987. (And my local electronics repair shop works on devices going back to the '50s.) Ask me what we did to keep these devices and appliances running for so long. Answer: not much actually. Just look at how diligently these Ghanaians salvage pieces of copper! If more "first-world" people simply cared about using things for their full service-life, and see through this crap that they're trying to bombard us with ads and persuade us to buy, there'd be less demand for the same old new junk. Our money would be better spent elsewhere!

[@emaw3420]

I still use my wonderful iphone8 that my daughter had given to me when she got her a new one. Husband is using a 12, I don't see anything wrong with them. Our phones is upgraded with latest iOS, work great, big screen, I just don't see the need for a new one, just a piece a metal, who cares. This really make me feel I've done the right thing.

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Apple returns is the main reason smartphones is not a western exclusive privilege, it's bad enough you bloat your economy so hard that most of the world can only afford your leftovers, despite actually CREATING the stock. There only is 8 billion phones since recently, because China manufacturing was strongarmed to produce dozens of them per ONE American FIRST. Now you want to set up superficial austerity where you posture as being frugal, when you HAVE everything, you just deem yourself too worthy to act as the glorified screen tester of iPhones that others only get once you're DONE with it... And not even until you've actually produced something worthwhile, because YOUR economy is all tied in IP usury and planned obsolescence of THIS WEEK'S Netflix catalog.

[@525Lines]

Planned obsolescence in appliances is a big part of this problem. Stuff is made with a service life baked in, usually measured in months. And they've been doing it for a while.

[@susannpatton2893]

Keeps their investors happy, no check for them if you don't buy every year

[@thisguy73]

Compare fridge from 1980s to now. And technology now is supposedly "better"

[@jeromeglick]

@@thisguy73 Our fridge is from 1990. My uncle has a fridge from the '50s. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Besides, our vacuum cleaner is from 1989 and our clothes dryer from '87.

[@QAlba1074]

They've been doing it for at least a couple decades now. Late stage capitalism.

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

A scheduled life cycle is the ONLY guarantee where you can conceivably write the CORRECT legislation that mandates actual recycing. "Right to Repair" is the next in line corporate campaign, where petty middlemen like Louis rossman need that $2000 mac to exist so he can skim a $600 Mac from a repair gig. Not a $800 where poor Louis only gets $300. But what the "repair" MEANS, is massive ACCELERATION of the "repaired" parts, like the cobalt batteries made with child labor when you get to replace the battery that much more often. Then you get to pay ONLY the underpaid child labor, and NOT EVEN the underpaid Chinese assembly that COULD go into funding recycling... with the CORRECT legislation that mandates actual recycing. "Right to Repair" end goal is to NEVER write that legislation, like EU is now mandating replaceable batteries ( as it is funding salt and cellulose battery r&d and seeks to be the new IP landlord). Incidentally, Apple is one of the big actors in global field ACTUALLY using that profit moeny from fat cat western world, to fund refurbishemnt and returns off the riches OF fat cat westerners with bloated currency. THAT is what Apple does with $900 monitor stands, takes it from Jeff Bezos who is the only type to WANT that in his moon rocket.

[@oatmilk169]

Nothing gives me more satisfaction than repairing something that would otherwise be junked (and, if I don't need it, either selling it or giving it to someone else). Living in a fairly affluent community, you get a lot of people who don't think twice about getting rid of that ski jacket, TV, bike, iDevice, or whatever after minimal use. When the college students move in/out before Fall semester, there will also be a ton of hardly used items placed in or along side dumpsters that can be reused/resold, etc. Furniture, snowboards, skis, bikes, TVs, all kinds of stuff.

[@SeaTurtle515]

I’m 68. When I was a kid, everything was repaired, even the toaster and used for decades. We had the same Electrolux vacuum for over 20 years. When China started flooding American markets with cheap goods, there went our keep and repair mindset.

[@KeepinUpWitSash]

I watched this story live on tv, and it brought tears to my eyes. It’s so sad how the world treats people they deem less than 😔😢😔 from the companies who don’t care after they’ve made their money to the head of countries who allow these things to go on, it’s so sad.

[@Jacob-seek-Jesus-123]

Well the thing is, is that let’s say for example with real estate when a building or house has used up it’s life cycle, many states & local governments passed laws so that it must be returned back into its original natural condition before the human imprint. E companies should be held to the same standard as oil & natural gas companies are held to, if oil is dumped into another country the whole world comes down upon them so why isn’t it the same with E technology trash? Several international factories built proper disposal sites & should do so in these 3rd world countries so that the “it’s cheaper to ship off to pollute & destroy than to properly dispose of” mindset gets dealt with along with holding these E corporations to the same hazardous material standard that oil & natural gas companies are held to. Very good job to this reporter for uncovering E technology environment hazards along with subjecting these same harsh conditions upon empoverished societies around the world, enough is enough, thank you. 😊

[@roycamargo3521]

Stop saying " the world and the companies". We are the world, and we enrich these companies buying their crap everyday. Lets start taking accountability for our actions. I for once, have reduced my consumerism at a minimum, and still think it is high compared to other standards. So I refuse the urge to buy "a new" anything as much as possible.

[@mollari2261]

If only electronics lasted longer and were user-upgradeable. Remember this when Tim Cook waves his hands about Apple products being recyclable.

[@susannpatton2893]

Just a feel good brush over to make people not care about standing in line every year for a new one.

[@thisguy73]

He lies Bigly

[@QAlba1074]

Planned obsolescence is a thing. 🤑

[@addiemclain1183]

Good story and we all need to know about this. The chemicals and safety are crazy. I live in a throw away society and we Americans have A LOT of stuff. I hope we can improve this situation. Communication and awareness are first to begin solution.

[@maxlinder5262]

... Good to know.... BUT what are you doing ..????😊

[@QAlba1074]

They call us CONSUMERS for a reason....

[@flipsolo]

The environmental thing we could ever do is to stop buying sh*t!

[@susannpatton2893]

😂😂😂😂 that would take several years of de-programing - every one wants you to have the latest things

[@chelseafan4eva]

This would require companies to start making products without planned obsolescence

[@jeromeglick]

Yes, how about only releasing a new smartphone version every 3 years or less? They're not changing that much year-over-year as they were in the roughly 2007-2017 era. How about corporations seriously caring about environment over pure profit? Don't we all long for the "good 'ol days" when machines and devices were built to last? And you could get them fixed at the local repair shop?

[@chublez]

​@@chelseafan4evaeh. I've had the same phone for 6 years. It's pictures aren't as good as the newest ones but it's fine still. I just treat it like it cost me $700 and a replacement would cost atleast as much instead of being careless with it.

[@chelseafan4eva]

@@chublez problem is, your software is likely not getting updates and is more vulnerable to a hack....it's dangerous and that's what the tech companies need to be put to task on

[@Canhandleit839]

No comment from Apple? Wtf?! The manufacturers and we consumers of these products need to pay for this. Start of life, to end of life. This is an absolute human and environmental travesty.😢 This has to stop. This needs to be discussed.

[@susannpatton2893]

Tag them in your post

[@thisguy73]

Just keep buying stuff and we will show you STeve Jobs and Tim Cook ads. Smile America! NO DON"T LOOK THAT WAY. BAD CBS! BAD CBS!

[@mattb9664]

How do you tag?

[@QAlba1074]

We need to create a society where we don't need any of this tech crapola.

[@davidsalo8397]

We are simply poisoning ourselves into oblivion. And the world's consumers respond with "We may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least we're enjoying the ride ".

[@mcm3a812]

Our family tries to repair and reuse as much as possible. With You tube theres almost always someone telling how to fix it. I wish more Americans would reuse and repair. Take better care of your devices. You don’t need a new tv just because it’s on sale.

[@jeromeglick]

Our TV is from 1990. Fixed twice, in 2006 and again in 2019. Good for another 30 years. Built to last.

[@djdollase]

This is such an important point about our general failure to consider the full circle of things we make and use. This lack of a cyclical approach is so destructive and shows how adolescent we are as people.

[@QAlba1074]

The chickens are coming home to roost. This can't go on forever. A few decades later to clean up our act would be too late.

[@kevinmcconnell3641]

I have, for a few decades, been saying waste hauling should be charged for by either weight or volume. It would change the way people look at waste. It would also instigate the expansion of the recycling industry.

[@QAlba1074]

Definition of cleaning in industrial society: take waste from one place and dump it in another. All the waste that has been produced after the industrial revolution has accumulated... it has not gone out of earth. Time is running out for this planet.

[@swray2112]

Right to repair only really came up tangentially, but one major step to reducing this problem would be regulations eliminating the use of most glues, especially on batteries in electronics.

[@ismaelmartinez7885]

I still want to know how all of these products end up here? Who's responsible for sending them there?

[@thisguy73]

the lowest refuse bidder

[@TheGreyLineMatters]

Until you end things like Amazon, this problem will never go away.

[@QAlba1074]

Could you imagine how much waste just Amazon has created?

[@Godsend12936]

Not true whatsoever. Nice generalization you are doing a lot for the world with blind envy

[@InnaGottaDavida]

Two and a half minutes into this story, a Christmas ad featuring new electronics popped up. Talk about bad timing. Consumerism knows no bounds.

[@Pffft14690]

What the story neglected to tell is how all those electronics and appliances wound up in Ghana.

[@davestewart2067]

No kidding. Logistics costs money. Who’s paying it? My small online business selling car parts has essentially collapsed because no one seemingly wants to pay the shipping.

[@iuyozx]

Most of it is probably local or from neighboring countries. This is a propaganda piece.

[@pietrojenkins6901]

@@davestewart2067 there's a market for it with good enough margins to pay for the shipping.

[@cybergal99]

What an important story!! Thank you for getting the word out! I try to NEVER upgrade my phone, but sometimes it's impossible not to. Verizon should never have cut off land lines as an option, IMHO.

[@susannpatton2893]

They are too expensive, even with x amount off the purchase of the new one

[@jeromeglick]

I used my first smartphone, an iPhone 4S, from 2012 to 2023. That's right, 11 years. The only things wrong with it when I stopped using it were the broken loudspeaker and the home button started behaving a bit flaky (thinking I pressed it twice when I pressed it once, etc.) Still on original battery, measured at 70% capacity. (I tried to keep the charge between 20% and 80%.) I've fixed other phones before using iFixit, and only stopped using mine because the cell carriers shut down 3G service. Now on a Samsung Galaxy with easy swap-out battery. When I buy a previous generation phone for a low price, I don't equate it's value to its price. It's not all about money; a physical product comes from the Earth and must return to the Earth. Verizon land lines? We still have ours. And they're included in FiOS as well.

[@janetucker5963]

Of course no one at Apple wanted to go on record. Profit over people.

[@jameswright4999]

I think whatever companies logo that is found, should set up a division that supplies equipment, training, and health care for the locals who do this and may inspire more companies to follow, but thats too much like right

[@matthewscopelite5303]

Good to hear that Samsung is doing the right thing. It would be nice if Apple could follow suit and wake-up before they're forced to, which is unfortunately what it would take

[@QAlba1074]

The right thing? I don't think so buddy.

[@gman6081]

Great journalism CBS. Those people trying to make it better....my heart goes out to them. Still, I feel disgust and shame at our out of control greed. More more more. Enough is never enough consumerism. Humanity is its own worst enemy.

[@heinuchung8680]

Plastic companies should have to deal with this not the people.

[@BrentWigginsWords]

Planned obsolescence, FOMO, trends, consumer culture, it's all maladaptive. Instead of making the companies richer and being a part of the problem, use your devices until you absolutely need a new one. I used my last phone for almost five years before buying a new one. I recycled the old one at my nearest e-waste recycling facility.

[@pamelatanner788]

The e waste recycling center could very likely send the phone to this place. So much of "recycling" (I know this is true for plastics) is sending the trash to poor countries who pull out what is valuable and then burn the rest of it or dump it in rivers and it eventually ends in the oceans. "Recycling is a concept most companies use to dupe us into thinking what we put in those bins will actually be recycled.

[@jeromeglick]

Good for you. I actually used my last phone for 11 years (an iPhone 4S from 2012 to 2023). I could have kept using it but all the carriers shut down 3G so it could no longer handle calls or texts. Original battery is still rated at 70% capacity, believe it or not! One thing I miss about it is the perfect size for my hand; all these larger phones are harder to hold and use with a thumb, don't fit in some pockets as well, etc.

[@QAlba1074]

Maladaptive is the best word to describe our consumer culture.

[@BlahBlah-em2ed]

Google, Apple, and the major telecommunications companies in the United States does not care. If you want change, go after the companies that constantly market new gizmos non-stop to Americans.

[@sharkscrapper]

It's stories like this that caused me to start my company, Shark Scrapper. Trying to do my part to get as much e-scrap recycled here in the US and NOT end up in Ghana or other places of questionable practices.

[@SeaTurtle515]

Developed countries are making such a greedy mess of things. The solutions need to be wide spread, universal and absent of greed. I don’t know if enough humans are capable of such a thing.

[@QAlba1074]

*Industrial humans

[@6atlantis]

The dump owners in Ghana are buying this stuff. It’s not like it’s being illegally dumped in their state capital. Buy yes we need a better way.

[@GKP999]

We need to consume less, reuse more and demand corporations to design products that are easier to recycle the parts.

[@AmosAmerica]

This is a terrible situation. US needs to get on board with this and fast. Also, Apple needs to pay taxes.

[@EnronnSierra]

I have an iPhone X which is only getting security updates until next year. Bought in spring of 2018 and it still works great even though the battery is shot. I plan to keep it as a collectors item when I upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro Max year. Thats my contribution.

[@marcopolo7604]

Androids are more durable, last longer, and are cheaper to repair..

[@EnronnSierra]

@@marcopolo7604 By fall of 2024 the iPhone X will have been around for 8 years. Android phones rarely get new operating system updates. The manufacturer will make promises, but usually you only get a couple OS updates. Also, I’m in the Apple ecosystem, my Macs, iPads, Apple Watch and Beats all work together. Another interesting thing about Apple products people like to collect them. You don’t see folks wanting to collect a Galaxy S3 yet a 2007 iPhone can fetch for thousands. There is even an active reddit group just for older iPhones.

[@hoosierbaddy3052]

Collectors item? An old Apple phone? Doesn’t even work? Yeah, keep it Friend. Become a hoarder to cut down e-waste.

[@bbygrlpt2]

What if you change the battery? I have an SE and the battery is also not that great

[@QAlba1074]

Nice "contribution".

[@davidholaday2817]

Thank you for bringing this information to more and many people.

[@fatbastard-u6l]

How Terrible exploiting these people. Send it to Beverly Hills.

[@jcruz5050]

I miss the days when things made to last & were used til they no longer functioned or u couldn't fix it anymore. This is only ONE kinda landfill like this, clothes & other things we toss are polluting other countries as well. It's Idiocracy IRL

[@fritzfaibil7774]

I live just a 800m away from this location the place is called Agobloshi market in Accra Ghana and the fumes when burning the waste is really toxic, the most dangerous aspect of it that that river there just connect directly to the sea that affects marine life and also people living at the coastal areas depends on it. How i wish I could do something about it or relocate

[@mililaniman]

This is an insightful report.

[@PlantNative]

We need to teach our kids how to buy parts to fix our stuff like clothes dryers, washers, microwaves etc

[@jeromeglick]

Our clothes dryer is from 1987. All we needed to do to keep it running is shake out the lint collector occasionally and replace the drive belt a couple years ago. There are how-to videos on this. Drive belt replaced in under 30 mins. Our microwave is from 1994, only needed fixing in 2003. Don't need a new one.

[@QAlba1074]

Ever heard of planned obsolescence?

[@emaw3420]

Can we please just take care of each other and our home/earth together

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

Thanks for bringing the awareness to the average person who is just trying to get by. I really focus on not being a disposable American.😢

[@paquitoignacio3449]

It’s a sad nature of how people with no choice but to do this things to survive regardless of health danger

[@stephanied1028]

I try to use my iphone for 5 years or more. I mean it’s the same phone over and over again. Plus at 1k a pop I can be doing other things with that money.

[@pah1921il]

Excellent journalism.

[@Aethertopia369]

The New Fairphone 5 is working nicely, and the Lineage fork /e/OS works well with it.

[@HotBoy_George]

I hope this reaches more people

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

The US, the largest producer of plastic WASTE in the world also only Recycles 5%......... Those blue bins/recycle bins are there to make you feel better about yourself. Be the change! Not lazy!

[@maxlinder5262]

It NEVER Ends......

[@49lucky]

Yes but in the USA try to find someone, anyone who will or can REPAIR something. When I was growing up there was someone in the town who could repair anything??? Now just throw it away!!!

[@velmex12]

Also blame the software operating systems which have and end-of-life. Apple Microsoft and Google.

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

😞Terribly saddening, this has been unfortunately going on for so long, I’m now in my mid thirties I remember seeing images like this in my teens if not, early twenties. Sadly nothing has yet to change, or be done to truly bring a stop to this…💔🌏💔

[@QAlba1074]

The cold winds of change are blowing. Without nature man cannot survive on this planet. We are destroying nature in favor of an illusion of tangible "stuff".

[@bambooblue74]

NIMBY gone too far. Shame on consumers and manufacturers.

[@MPR2]

They're blaming the wrong thing, the consumer, they should be blaming the stupid governments that allows this in their countries! 🙄🙄

[@marcopolo7604]

The corruption is concentrated in the top of the pyramid.

[@MarkHatlestad]

No, it's the companies that profit off of products without being accountable for their end of life cycle.

[@vbrown6445]

The waste is going to go somewhere. And that usually means somewhere people are powerless/poor enough to not have a say in how much rubbish gets dumped in their community (either at home or abroad). Why not try to stop it at the source-- the producers and consumers?

[@MPR2]

Because it won't stop until the governments of poor countries say NO to the dumping. THEN and only then will producers create sustainable solutions for the waste. Consumers are not going to give up electronics, they're too integral to our lives now. Producers need to produce products that are less wasteful and last longer. They're not going to do that unless they're forced to.@@vbrown6445

[@MPR2]

Yes, the governments. @@marcopolo7604

[@Planet_Cents]

The major impact we have had on our planet is astonishing. Day by day things are getting more and more severe. We recognize this and are determined to do our part in reconstructing our planet. Planet Cents enables meaningful change by connecting people to our sustainable marketplace, making it easier to live sustainably.

[@QAlba1074]

We need to de-industrialize the planet first things first. Give people work to clean up the mess we've made since the industrial revolution.

[@Dave-b9i]

Use your devices for longer. Buy new devices less often. If you need a new device, buy it used/refurbished.

[@sandpiper1515]

This issue could be solve tomorrow if planed obsolescence wasn't a thing and right to repair was enforced. But that loses people money so nothing will ever change, its much easier to blame the buyer who is near forced to buy a new device since it stops working/being useful after 4 years.

[@QAlba1074]

Could you imagine living in a moneyless society? It may be coming....

[@ChristopherSchreib-yn1vu]

To recycle E-waste, freeze all of it with liquid Nitrogen, to make it BRITTLE, and feed it through a hammer-mill or grinder, and deposit the particles into a room where air jets create a giant whirlwind, which picks up all of the particles, and segregates its different elements into free floating ‘Saturn Rings’, and the separate elements or synthetic plastics, are captured by chutes popping up, to shunt the ‘Saturn Rings’ into individual elements or plastic bins, for cheapest and easiest MASS recycling.

[@cfltheman]

Apple also has software that locks their products that is unusable if the original owner does not log out of it, even if it was not considered lost or stolen. That results in many of their devices go to the landfill even if there is nothing wrong with it. I forgot to mention that they also tie their parts to a single device so you could not even take apart a device to be used to fix another.

[@catcherzw]

It’s so sad when you think about how the minerals they’re risking their lives to get from these machines are being mined by other people in Africa

[@davidholaday2817]

I'm really glad I bought a used laptop that I am using to type this right now.

[@Hope-w5l]

People ( including children ) are addicted to internet & smart-phone & computer. Internet and smart-phone and computer are drugs without drugs. They're hooked to their smart-phone and computer all day and non-stop. These products became addicted. Who are responsible for this new-type of addiction ???

[@QAlba1074]

TECHNOCRATS that's who.

[@susannpatton2893]

We aren't doing so well are we? 😢

[@vegasgal777]

The Blind Center of Southern Nevada has an electronics recycling center in Las Vegas, NV. ♻️

[@Rick-se5qm]

I was able to self repair my iPhone with parts from Amazon, BUT was informed by Verizon that service will stop at the end of year 5 so I was forced to update. What happens to the phone they no longer support?

[@maxlogan215]

Something to think about. Thank you

[@Hope-w5l]

If you produce your products to sell for profits, you are responsible for the end-of-life of your products. Exactly right !!! Any company that is created electronic products should have recycle-program to help electronic-waste and stop harming the environment and poor people.

[@QAlba1074]

Recycling will never save any of us.

[@betsyv8276]

Just tried to access Samsung‘s recycling website and chatted with their online customer support to no avail regarding recycling without purchasing something..

[@Bun800]

My newer Motorola Android phone unfortunately shattered in August (purchased end of March '22 bc my older Android wouldn't upgrade and I needed a security app for my airport job. Which is so stupid). Although very broken it still is completely functional (least til it randomly glitches and I literally have to wait for the phone to die instead of like in the old days where, you know, you could just rip out the battery and slip it back in). I share all these silly side notes bc newer certainly isn't always better. Make the phones so they don't shatter. Make the software acceptable to all carriers so we don't need to upgrade a perfectly usable phone. I don't even think I can fix the screen bc of how long the device is, which is also stupid! A very powerful and upsetting story.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

I just wish companies would let you unlock the bootloader without jumping through a bunch of hoops. The only companies who do are Google, OnePlus, and Nothing. Even then you still have to be careful because many times the carrier versions of those phones have locked bootloaders (especially Verizon, Verizon is the absolute worst for rooting)

[@owenbeharry8478]

I am homing those local governments put a stop to the developed world dumping. I know it will have to a be a gradual process.

[@maryginley7098]

Why do we continue to ignore the obvious! You can make changes with your purchases!

[@lucasstuart-chilcote7069]

Reminds me of the movie Wall-e Thankful I wasn’t born in a developing country.

[@thisguy73]

Thanks for showing these type of stories, most Americans only like their own insular world and have no clue.

[@evoxpop2088]

What I find hypocritical is the "environmental warriors." Where do the wind turbines go when they don't work anymore? Lithium batteries, electric car batteries, etc, etc, they do not care and don't even think about it, and carry the latest Apple or Samsung phone because it is fashionable. As long as e-waste can be shipped to places like Ghana, people won't care. Out of sight out of mind.

[@QAlba1074]

True environmentalists are not swayed by greenwashing. The environmental movement has been co-opted by the "green" movement. True grass roots environmentalists care about wild places and wild beings.

[@MandoDando]

I bought 3 large pallets from a distributor a couple of years ago to resell. It was waste from a warranty company, Asurian. I live in Arkansas. It was all trash. Fortunately, I got my money back from the pallet company. It is probably in the local landfill.

[@adamminter599]

I watched the segment carefully, twice. I saw lots of power cables being dismantled and burnt at the Agbogbloshie dump. But not a single phone.

[@BaronVonSTFU]

This should be titled "the chosen cost of waste". It is decisions made by our society and government that allow for situations like this to happen. It doesn't have to be this way. We have chosen that having a cheap dumping ground for our garbage is more important than the humans it affects.

[@Kevin-wj4ed]

It's all about greed!!!!!!!!!

[@JanetBeebe-nh9re]

I bought my Samsung S20-5G and it has failed exactly when it turned 3 years. Planned Obsolescence. 😢

[@bobbullethalf]

We just consume too much, we can’t sustain this. It is so easy for Americans, out of site out of mind.

[@markmowbray1769]

Brilliantly delivered article. Thank you, food for thought.

[@difernandez4899]

I normally keep my phones ( even after buying new ones) because of photos I haven't printed. I'm curious if the green phone 'atm' at the Walmart helps with this recycling problem at all...

[@kenhunt5153]

Yes, it should not be just mining the materials from the earth. Southeastern Arizona is permanently scarred from copper mining. Right to Repair laws, Corporate end of life responsibility and not buying something just because you can need to be internalized. My 8 year old Samsung works just fine.

[@nelsonmiranda1613]

Thank you it was a great. But people ain't going to listen and do the same thing over and over.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

CBS Sunday Morning (Nov 26, 2023) : environmental impact of discarded electronics... CBS Mornings (Nov 27, 2023): Cyber Monday shopping... (that was mentioned on this program in their Calendar segment)... Good job CBS...

[@QAlba1074]

THE IRONY!!!

[@shlby69m]

I find it ridiculous that USA can't recycle right here (Plastic, e-waste etc)

[@QAlba1074]

Plastic cannot be recycled!!!

[@sgtlamancha805]

Nothing will change.

[@raschellemodey8312]

In Ghana, thieves break into people's house under construction to steal electric cables. I guess those buying copper and cables are engendering these outcomes. Happened to me.

[@almightyloaf5434]

I did a research paper about this, it’s sad that these people do this harmful work

[@royalshilpa1396]

can you give me the gmail of your country

[@Hope-w5l]

Do something to make these big corps responsible for their products !!!

[@susannpatton2893]

20 percent is not enough-

[@QAlba1074]

Ridiculous, isn't it?

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

One thing that would help with smart phones is letting people run whatever OS they want just like a desktop. Phones and tablets basically have a forced EOL date due to software support

[@alexaales7937]

as it was said in the report, the us is per capita the most wasteful country in the world. i experienced it first hand and returned to my country cause i could not take it anymore. we are no saints but at least we try, in the us i felt like people did not give a f...k, it was all about convenience. simple things like turning the faucet off while shaving, brushing your teeth or doing the dishes were met with indifference. while your cupboard is filled with silverware and real plates using plastic forks or paper plates because you can just throw them out and not having to do the dishes???? the ignorance of american people towards their actions endangering the planet it mindboggling!

[@QAlba1074]

5% of world's population consuming 25-40% of world resources. American Dream is a nightmare for the planet.

[@iuyozx]

Yeah americas terrible. Better stay away.

[@chelseafan4eva]

Planned obsolescence needs to be prosecuted as fraud Btw they need to interview more Dutch people on these kinds of pieces that frankness of calling things "very stupid" is required 😂😂😂

[@DK-lz7kg]

I agree but I think logistically and legal-wise, that would be tremendously tedious and difficult to “prove” something was deliberately made bad (for the most part)

[@HalimEl-i5q]

It is great videos, I am a Cambodian people, i would like your sharing more. Thank you so much.

[@janistotham-davies4300]

I will be buying a fair phone!❤

[@royalshilpa1396]

can you give me the gmail of your country

[@peggystreetinfluencer]

Frankly, I miss the analog world. People took the time to be 'present', to 'talk' with one another. I will need to think about coming up with one small change that I can do to contribute toward a better, cleaner world.

[@missl849]

Electric vehicle waste will go here as well.

[@linw7320]

NO Justification. Corporate, Personal, Community, State, Country, Continental. ACCOUNTABILITY. "How can I do this better?

[@ernst91]

Tell the Ghanaian government to fix it. Don't expect the West to do it.