this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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And the label doesn't say anything about it, doesn't have the "don't throw in the trash" logo.

Those LEDs are glued in, there's no way to remove batteries before discarding the item

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[–] AbsurdityAccelerator 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, but companies need to be start being responsible too. I want to see a tax added to every single electronic product that covers recycling.

[–] Coreidan 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’ll never be responsible on their own. They’d willingly give you cancer if they knew it was profitable.

[–] Mango 1 points 1 month ago

We'll see how disposable they are when the price triples because the government needs to tax enough to send people out to pick them up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. Perhaps not in this case, but often there aren't even viable alternatives. You can't stop buying everything.

And good luck only buying stuff not made with child labor and slavery.