Product Waste Debate

The cluster focuses on debates about the wastefulness of discarding products, especially tech items and hardware, with arguments promoting reduce/reuse/recycle principles versus justifications for throwing them away as trash or e-waste.

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Sample Comments

ChuckNorris89 Aug 15, 2020 View on HN

That's what throwaways are for ;)

tonyedgecombe Jan 2, 2026 View on HN

It's all waste eventually.

ApacheEcho Jan 30, 2014 View on HN

Another product going directly to the waste bin.

eviks Nov 12, 2025 View on HN

Let's replace it with something useful then, junk isn't the only option

tom_wilde Sep 20, 2019 View on HN

Reduce / Recycle / ReuseTell me which of those is going to make the situation worse?

barbazoo Mar 1, 2023 View on HN

how wasteful. why not giving them away or selling them?

tejtm Jan 26, 2024 View on HN

people will throw them away or pay you to take them away

brailsafe Sep 4, 2021 View on HN

What's wasteful about that?

Kluny Feb 27, 2016 View on HN

Sometimes waste isn't the point.

ceejayoz Feb 17, 2023 View on HN

More than one thing can be trash simultaneously.