By the way, I did some retirement research a few years ago. I came across a county that had no building codes other than state mandated electric and no trash removal…they have a county dump if you want to use it. I wonder if such freedom truly exists. It was Boundry Country ID, btw.
There is a plant in Groveton, NH that converts plastic to diesel fuel and home heating oil.
Years ago I saw photos from China of them stripping the silver solder and wires from electronics. In the street, contaminated colored water in the ditch, smoky fires (burning insulation off the wires) and piles of waste next to their shacks with little kids both playing and working on dismantling the electronics.
Mine all get dumped in the garbage to be sent to a double-lined landfill 20 miles from my house. I do have to cut them down to size to fit in a black plastic garbage bag sometimes.