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

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
-13 points

Until stupid people stop buying this crap, this is always going to happen.

permalink
report
reply
16 points

Why can we only ever hold the consumers liable? Why do people like you never condemn the creators and those who sell these products?

permalink
report
parent
reply
-2 points

Because people buy them, they won’t stop making them whilst they sell. Stop buying them and they’ll stop making them. It’s not like the are necessary.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-3 points

Because sometimes the consumer is the boss.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points

Currently the only way to do that is to not buy dumb shit. What is condemning the manufacturers supposed to do? Make them shift uncomfortably on top of the pile of money?

permalink
report
parent
reply
34 points

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

It wasn’t advertised. OP says the label didn’t indicate this was there.

permalink
report
parent
reply

AssholeDesign

!assholedesign@lemmy.world

Create post

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.

Community stats

  • 709

    Monthly active users

  • 82

    Posts

  • 2.3K

    Comments

Community moderators