Less so now than a decade ago. You need to watch them while they repair it, I learned that the hard way.

EVERYTHING gets recycled in China period.

That isn’t even close to true. But I get you are using hyperbole here.

Name me one thing that not gets recycled? I have seen ppl opening manholes to scope the oil off the sewer (gutter oil). Styrofoam is the hottest commodity amongst trash collectors (plus cardboard that gets soaked before sold).

Here's a somewhat cyberpunk-ish fact I learned today: Back in '98 Taiwan, unbranded, mysterious desktop CPUs called Golden Soldier ("黄金戦士") were available in the street. It turns out they were actually modded mobile Intel CPUs installed in slockets.

https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/980618/parts4.ht... https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E9%87%91%E6%88%A6%E5...

BTW, speaking of repair culture, I love this idea of repurposed headless MacBooks.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Screenless-MacBooks-masqueradi...