Reflecting on the Environmental Geography of My PS5 Controller
Reflecting on the Environmental Geography of My PS5 Controller As someone who is twenty-one and part of a gaming group where everyone uses PS5s, I have realized that gaming controllers are more than just accessories, they are products with environmental impacts. My family and I have gone through many controllers over the years, and I used to toss old ones into a drawer or the trash without thinking about where they ended up. After learning about the materials inside them, plastics, copper wiring, lithium-ion batteries, and rare-earth metals like cobalt and lithium I now understand how our everyday electronics affect ecosystems, wildlife, and people around the world. Why a PS5 Controller Matters Environmentally Even a small device like a controller goes through a global life cycle involving extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and disposal. Mining metals such as lithium and cobalt destroys habitats ...