You can swap out your previous Fairphone trough the company itself - it's not like the fairphone 2 doesn't have potential consumers. The potential loss is economical, not ecological.<br><br>Material waste would only happen if nobody wanted the old fairphones and if given one free, wouldn't give up buying another phone. So even if the old fairphones ended up as second phones for people who would othervice have two phones anyway, the negative impact of upgrading for enviroment  would be shipment. And also losing money as the resell-value probably isn't that great, especially if you recycle your phone trough the fairphones own system.<br><br>Much bigger question is if buying into a more ethical system, if you already have a phone, is worth it. The Fairphone is like five years behind other brands in performance, so if you already have less than five years old phone, not swiching would be better choice for enviroment. If they made a flagship that is speced like a 600 dollars phone, but cost a thousand because of ethical resources, minimal usage of minerals connected to slavery, and compensating ecological impacts, you at least would have more people who could actually upgrade their phone for a need, not just downgrade to "VotE wiTH dOLLaRs".<br><br>Ultimately fighting the unethical extraction of natural resources trough marketsolutions is the most braindead idea marketliberalism has produced. It's unreasonable to expect consumers to take responsibility of productionchains so long, complicated and often purposefully unknown and untraceble, while trying to meet what they consider basic needs. Instead of meeting those basic needs together with standards set democratically, trough common morale, we get to choose between some green labels with frogs which virtually nobody actually understand what they are suppose to stand for. And even smaller margin actually knows what they in practice mean, and even when these people find fole-play the rest of us probably never hear about it, let alone understand nor care about it.<br><br>If the standards of Fairphone were written in law, fair phones (from all companies) wouldn't cost as much as Fairphones do.