Why Airpods Are An Environmental ‘Tragedy’

Vice’s “Future Relics” column asks what people 1,000 years from now will think when they keep discovering abandoned Airpods from 2019:
For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop holding much of a charge, and the AirPods will slowly become unusable. They can’t be repaired because they’re glued together. They can’t…