Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away
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Electrical items such as vapes, fans, cables and USB sticks can all be recycled

I should apologize. This was me. I got that first USB-C only MacBook in 2015 and spent the next 8 years buying half a billion small tech items trying to connect different things to it.

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On the other hand, there’s a lot fewer roadkill cassette tapes, unspooling on the side of the road into tangled brown snarls, than there were in the 1980s.

So sparkly though…

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Wow! I completely forgot about that!

Jose
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This is why I won’t get a smart watch. If I can’t change the battery, then is disposable garbage. I’m looking at you Google Pixel Watch.

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