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New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires (fortune.com)
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New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.

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[–] fubo 2 points 1 year ago

It seems to me that one simple (and therefore probably wrong) solution to e-waste would be to have retailers, distributors, and manufacturers accept nonworking or obsolete devices for responsible disposal or recycling.

Turn the one-way supply chain bidirectional. If you sell it, you've gotta take it back when it's broken. If you have an assembly line for making it, you can make a disassembly line for taking it apart. If that's expensive, well, apply some ingenuity to making it cheaper.

Want to deal with fewer broken devices? Make devices that don't break so much.