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State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?
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EcoTank printers. I bought one (an Epson) 7 years ago (maybe 8), and filled it up with liquid ink. I've refilled it once since, and that refill cost me under $50 total. It has some quirks, but it just keeps printing. Don't know if the tech has changed, but I don't see how you can DRM liquid.
I looked at these when replacing my HP, but they're still inkjets, right? We don't print often enough to keep inkjets operational--the ink dries and permanently clogs the head. I tried manually clearing that on my last one and was completely unsuccessful. It's been lasers ever since then.
This one seems to work even with weeks of no printing.
Laser printers are far better all around, if you can stomach the up front cost.
I just pulled a totally functional Brother laser printer out of a dumpster, half full of toner and a good drum. It /just worked/. I cannot imagine who would just toss a working laser printer into a dumpster like that. For me, this was of course the best possible option.
But I must say inkjets have an advantage no one ever acknowledges:
Inkjets use much less energy. They are the green choice. Of course, only if you’re not going through disposable cartridges that only hold 4ml and waste 2ml in cleaning. Hence why the Epson Ecotanks are a sweetspot of sorts.
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Companies toss old working items because they have no process to be able to sell them, even if it's worthwhile. And even if they did, lawyers would kill the idea because of liability (somehow). Ditto with any kind of donation arrangement.
TL/DR: lawyers are the leading source of corporate e-waste.
I suspect the dumping was illegal in my area. It was a legit dumpster, but e-waste has a specific disposal procedure. So the incentive for corps is to avoid fines.
But in the case at hand, it was a dumpster in front of an apartment building. It was full of furniture and other household waste.
Around here students dump a lot of stuff. They can't be bothered to move it, so they toss it, not even trying to use proper process or recover any funds. Depressing.