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I just came across this post on Wired about the $10 cellphone.  In this day and age you would think that companies would be finding ways to make the products they create either:

a. Last longer in order to prevent them being dumped into over crowded landfills.
b. Bio-degradable or recyclable so that they can be re-used.

The concept of a $10 cellphone means that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these plastic, metal, acid, cadmium, and silicon mini toxic bombs are going to be thrown into garbage bins and ultimately end up in landfills or polluting drinking water.  Heaven forbid they should end up in some poor African country where they are dismantled and the metal parts melted down for scrap.

I’m sorry for the rant, but this sort of junk is what we need less of, not more of, in this World.  It was nice to read that many of the commenters on this post shared my opinion regarding the sustainability of such a product.  The quote from the representative from ASDA (a Wal-mart subsidiary) pretty much says it all…

You can just grab one off the shelf, use it once and throw it away if you wanted [...]

Nice.

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