In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
It’ll add waste because tinkerers will buy it just to play with. What will they do with their discarded or extra parts? How will replacements be packaged and sold? As a gimmick it doesn’t work, there’s nothing more ‘sustainable’ about that than having insurance and having a phone repaired when if you break it. They’re just trying to create a parts market. When phones can be made of mostly recycled materials they will be ‘sustainable’
It’ll add waste because tinkerers will buy it just to play with. What will they do with their discarded or extra parts? How will replacements be packaged and sold? As a gimmick it doesn’t work, there’s nothing more ‘sustainable’ about that than having insurance and having a phone repaired when if you break it. They’re just trying to create a parts market. When phones can be made of mostly recycled materials they will be ‘sustainable’