[23B1]

I'd be curious to know if this is a fair comparison. A brief search revealed little.

I can see either side of the argument, and probably the result would change based on bounding conditions; for instance, how many more people have 'cameras' in their pocket today compared to 20 years ago?

And a lot of chemicals in photo processing are reused over and over to develop rolls of film – maybe it's more efficient to have one central lab processing photos than a billion phone batteries going into landfill every year?

[jonfw]

nobody is going to get rid of their phone though... they're just going to have a phone and a disposable camera

[23B1]

Actually I have slowly been moving off my cellphone and there's a growing number of young people who are doing the same.

Also: "Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022"

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

[1over137]

A growing number? Double nothing is still nothing.