[jrace]

>And settle down everyone, they are being recycled, not dumped in a hole.

Recycling is only slightly better than throwing away.

There is no conceivable reason these could not have been re-sued.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - is in that order for a good reason.

[xenocyon]

Correct, and furthermore the environmental gap keeps decreasing with each step to the right: in terms of impact, recycling is much closer to landfilling than it is to reusing.

[deelowe]

> There is no conceivable reason these could not have been re-sued.

These seem like fairly conceivable reasons to me: maintenance, liability, safety concerns, and a lack of consumer-grade charging equipment

[labster]

Why sell people a product when you can offer them a service and make even more money? Reduce and Reuse are bad for business, making Recycle the only economically viable option.

EDIT: @downvoter, can you tell me how our business climate doesn't suck this way?

[JKCalhoun]

You are absolutely correct.

Upvoter.

[xenocyon]

You're getting downvoted because this is a capitalist forum and your comment goes against the grain.