Returned devices are currently e-waste that can't be reassigned, per The Verge.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    It was manufactured ewaste from the start.

    It should have been shipped straight to the recycler directly from the factory and never bothered with the customer bit in the middle.

  • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    This is what happens when you sell an expensive, bad, broken, unfinished product.

    I think they are in the "find out" phase of FAFO.