[dubrocks]

It’s a very small amount of plastic and metal. It really doesn’t matter.

[Eric_WVGG]

I once did some napkin math to figure out how many Teslas worth of lithium ion battery have been made (total). I was expecting dozens, but came up with low thousands. (Gotta factor in the case, after all.) Still insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Worrying about the environmental impact of AirPods is like legislating shower flow while turning a blind eye to the useless millions of acres of lawns and the water they suck up (1.7 trillion gallons vs 234 trillion gallons). Dumb, a bit insulting.

[karakot]

yeah, an ultimate first world problem. A single average Costco trip produces 10 times more plastic waste.