International E-Waste Day Same Day as End of Vista 10

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2025

Reproducing the message from Akira Urushibata: (dated this week)

Official support for Windows 10 will end on October 14. People are complaining that they are being forced to switch to the newer Windows 11 which has controversial features including Recall.

In addition the step often requires buying a new computer because Windows 11 requires more computing power to run.

Coincidentally October 14 is International E-Waste Day. The fact that many Windows computers will be discarded is generating criticism from environmentalists. For them, garbage is one issue. The need to extract more rare elements, a process which is often ecologically taxing, is another.

International E-Waste Day | WEEE Forum https://weee-forum.org/iewd-about/

Recycle your e-waste - it's critical! International E-Waste Day 2025 to focus on Critical Raw Materials | WEEE Forum https://weee-forum.org/ws_news/international-e-waste-day-2025-to-focus-on-critical-raw-materials/

International E-waste Day 2025 - Geneva Environment Network https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/international-e-waste-day-2025/

Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling https://pirg.org/articles/why-the-end-of-support-for-windows-10-is-uniquely-troubling/

We should tell people that the older computers are not useless. All they need to do is to install GNU/Linux.