New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.
New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.
From 1980 to 2018 they say vehicle fires decreased by 60%.
That is done by regulation and holding companies accountable for their products. The issues arise from low cost products from shit companies.
People hate inconveniences like regulations because they make prices higher, but security is never about convenience.
We need to stop fining companies miscule amounts and ban imports from companies that don’t meet stricter regulations. It isn’t going to cost $5 dollars for junk you throw away after one time use if we do that. Users will pay more for a higher quality reusable product under those regulations as well.
Safter and less e-waste.
I mean shit, why are 1 time use disposable electronics even allowed? E-cigarettes you toss instead of swapping a cartridge are a quick one that comes to mind. Apparently people get mail/advertisements in the mail now that have some sort of lcd screen so they can play a video. So you just chuck a battery and screen when you open your mail. That’s disgusting. (Amazing how far the tech has come, but still)
It seems to me that one simple (and therefore probably wrong) solution to e-waste would be to have retailers, distributors, and manufacturers accept nonworking or obsolete devices for responsible disposal or recycling.
Turn the one-way supply chain bidirectional. If you sell it, you’ve gotta take it back when it’s broken. If you have an assembly line for making it, you can make a disassembly line for taking it apart. If that’s expensive, well, apply some ingenuity to making it cheaper.
Want to deal with fewer broken devices? Make devices that don’t break so much.