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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)

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[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

To be fair what charity or church wants a pile of easily breakable, low value and low battery toys?