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Hot take: in recent years we saw those "emergency" single-use powerpacks appear in stores. I think they mostly disappeared (or i've just not been looking good enough for them) but instead they should just have been selling a simple reuseable holder for kickstarting your phone using a set of AA batteries.

Sure those are disposeable too, but they are available at any store, and recycling facilities for them have been available for decades.

Of course this has mostly been displaced by the actual right solution, having charging ports everywhere ;-)
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@miifox it’s the same kind of greed as single use vapes basically, why sell you a power bank once when they can sell you a power bank every time. the chemistry is going to be the same because rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are just that good. and the electronics for charging it is pennies. but they only get to sell that one once every couple of years instead of once every time you need it

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@charlotte if that was the plan i think it failed miserably. good thing tbh
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