Just Another Aspect Of Not Paying The True Lifecycle Costs Of The Commoditization Of Everything

And the problem, of course, is that we're going to need the materials locked up in that old waste; as you may have noticed that getting new sources from the usual places in the ground, and under the water, are not so easy to come by any more.  The people who make new things, though, don't want to be on the hook to pay the recovery premium, from the waste, any more than the guys who made the old stuff were, because that's just a cost factor that makes doing more of the phoney pricing, which allows the item to be sold successfully at all in the first place, rather problematic; which of course can't be allowed because then reality might actually set in and the whole system would collapse.

TRASH WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH

Each US Family Trashes 400 iPhones' Worth Of E-Waste A Year

3 diggs National Geographic Studies

A new report warns of billions of dollars lost around the world as countries fail to recycle a glowing glut of electronics waste.

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PUTTING ON THE BRAKES

We Calculated The Potential Pitfalls Of Electric Cars, In 5 Charts

5 diggs Wired Cars

EVs could save the planet, but only if we understand their full impact — from mines in the DRC to fossil fuels in Kansas.

WHO WILL PROTECT THE EPA?

EPA Officials, Disheartened By Agency's Direction, Are Leaving In Droves

13 diggs The New York Times Politics

More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.

POPPING TECH'S BUBBLE

Techies Still Think They're The Good Guys. They're Not.

17 diggs Wired Culture

Talking to tech founders every day, it’s clear how little their lives have changed in the last year, even as the world around them has shifted.

PERMANENTLY DAMAGED

Here's What Oil Drilling Looks Like In The Arctic Refuge, 30 Years Later

14 diggs The New York Times Nature

As these infrared images show, even after three decades, the well’s footprint — about 600 feet long on its longest side — is easily distinguishable from the undisturbed tundra around it.