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Give away, repurpose, or resell. This is the right way. I myself only purchase used phones. No need for perfectly usable devices to become electronical waste.
Exactly.
When it comes to phones at least, I also try to keep mine for as long as possible because there's honestly no point in upgrading just for the heck of it. Companies don't release meaningful "must have" features anymore like they did back when people felt it was normal to upgrade every couple of years. No need to contribute to e-waste when it can be avoided.
I've been using my current phone for 4 years now, and the phone I had before that I used for 6. I upgraded only because I received the newer one for free from work, but I gave my previous phone away to a friend who needed one because I wasn't going to throw away a perfectly good phone that I was happily using just fine a few months prior. Sure, the battery life was no longer quite as good, but I didn't really care (nor did my friend) because we at least remember the days where you were lucky if your phone made it more than 8 hours on a single charge. You just learn to deal with it and bring a spare charger if you're planning to be out for a while.
Heck, by the looks of it, companies are just making the newer models worse and worse without actually adding anything. They'll have to tear my current phone out of my cold dead hands.