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Leaked codenames unsurprisingly suggest Pixel 9a and four Pixel 10 phones in 2025 (9to5google.com)

submitted 2 months ago by BookSwiftieAndrew@kbin.earth to c/android@lemdro.id

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According to a new report, Google's 2025 lineup of Pixel phones unsurprisingly includes five new devices in line with this year's batch.

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[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Trade ins and selling old phones doesn't really reduce e-waste. What reduces e-waste is manufacturing less phones.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (13 children)

That's empirically untrue. If people are selling their used phones and not keeping more than one phone (which definitely happens, but is unrelated to this point), then the exact same number of phones would be produced as if everyone bought new and only put them in e-waste when they were broken/obsolete.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

E-waste isn't the only problem associated with smartphone manufacturing.

While the energy required to power our devices remains significant, for devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs, the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions now comes from the manufacturing phase. Devices have become more energy-efficient due in part to the shift to mobile platforms, as well as more complex, which increases the amount of energy required to produce each one. Life-cycle assessments of smartphones, tablets and PCs have consistently found that the production phase, including resource extraction and processing, component manufacturing, and assembly, contributes the most to total greenhouse gas emissions, in some cases as much as 80%.

Smartphones and other electronic devices are among the most resource intensive by weight on the planet–miners must dig through more than 30 kilos of rock to obtain the 100 or so grams of minerals used in a smartphone. Industrial mining scars the Earth permanently, leaving behind toxic wastewater and soil, and rehabilitation of mining areas is uncommon.

From Greenpeace's 2017 Guide to Greener Electronics.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I completely agree with your comment. I was only responding to the claim, "Trade ins and selling old phones doesn’t really reduce e-waste."

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