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That obsession with plastic recycling is not right. Saving one plastic bottle on a 450gbp phone which is meant to be used for a couple years is nothing.

I mean recycling is good, but if it is a major selling point, bad for them.

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To be fair it’s also made from “fairtrade gold and conflict-free minerals”, which is arguably more important than the plastic bottle that’s saved.

That still one less bottle in the environment, baby steps I suppose.

There are much more cost effective ways to stop plastic bottles from ending up in the environment than turning them into smartphones. This has hallmarks of an ineffective virtue signaling scam.

Definitely more cost effective ways, but how many of those can be done by the FairPhone manufacturers while achieving production?

And it's not like FairPhone is creating a negative impact here, it's just adding to the global effort. What would you want them to do exactly while still achieving the production of a phone?

Maybe fairphone should focus on phones, and leave all other world problems (garbage, poverty, hunger, oil spills etc) to others - governments and non-government orgs.

Or just ask extra 50 pounds per phone and give it to these orgs.

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