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Humane's Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world's global e-waste problem

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Humane’s Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world’s global e-waste problem.

  • Quicky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    7 hours ago

    This article is a bit of a mess. What the fuck does AI have to do with the amount of glue used in a device?

    And why focus on a limited run from a failed product rather than the literal millions of successful wearable products like airpods that are equally hard to recycle?

    Also

    Meanwhile, the use of the technology is only expected to grow.

    Very insightful

    • Quicky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      7 hours ago

      Oh and not to question the professor’s expertise but you can’t blame the consumers for this one. Literally NOBODY asked for one of these pins.

      “These products are designed based on the consumers’ desires and affordability,” said Berrin Tansel, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Florida International University.

      Making them easier to recycle would require the cost of the material recovery process to be fronted by the manufacturer, making them more expensive, Tansel told Context.

        • usualsuspect191@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          There’s an e-waste recycling fee tacked onto some electronics (TVs mostly I think) in Canada. Maybe it needs to be expanded to other things?

          • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            3 hours ago

            It should be expanded to everything. Why do we allow corporations to build things that can’t be recycled, and not have them pay for the waste management of the products they create? Taxing them for hard to recycle packaging and products would spur them to create more sustainable alternatives. Why do we let consumers buy shit but distribute the cost of their waste management across all tax payers? Consumers should be charged extra for buying products which are hard to dispose of.

            NOTE: you just charge the companies for the waste management of their products, which will be passed onto consumers.

          • boreengreen@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            if you set up something like this, they would have to pay at the time of manufacturing.

          • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            4 hours ago

            If only we had a way to collect money from companies as they operate. Damn.

            Edit: I know you said in this case, but taxing companies for this makes sense and needs to be said

    • Mîm@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      5 hours ago

      And why focus on a limited run from a failed product rather than the literal millions of successful wearable products like airpods that are equally hard to recycle?

      Because there are a lot of people with an hateboner for everything with ‘AI’ mentioned with it and it brings clicks.