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Around 26% of toys bought at Christmas are neglected by the end of January, and 40% will be thrown out within the first 3 months of being unwrapped. Combined weight of electronic toys comes to 3.2b kg (environmentjournal.online)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/zerowaste

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago

As a parent, the amount of plastic toys that people give as gifts is just insane.

Sometimes it can make sense that something is made of plastic, but many plastic toys could easily be made of wood and have a much smaller impact on the environment.

And then there are the toys that require batteries when all it's doing is playing an annoying song or blocking lights.