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by TheSpiceIsLife
2645 days ago
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It's a good point. And the concomitant packaging and freight requirements. It'd be good to see a "10,000,000 AirPods is the equivalent of" various other things. How many AirPods would you need to recycle to have enough metal / plastic / battery material to build an electric car, for example. |
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A pair of Airpods and their case weigh 46 g. And the curb weight of the standard Tesla 3 is 1611 kg (all numbers from wikipedia)
So you would need 35022 sets of Airpods just to make up the mass of a Tesla 3, and you would have to recycle at least that many Airpods (likely far more) to get enough material to manufacture a Tesla 3
I wouldn't be surprised if it took more than 100000 sets of airpods to get enough battery and metal for a car. With lots of extra leftover plastic.