Counterpoint to most of the posts here - I don’t see this and think “wow we should stop using things”, I see this and think “wow, we need to sort out governance / fix poverty”.
A well run landfill looks nothing like this and these are in no way a foregone conclusion of someone throwing away an old iPhone 3 or whatever.
There is no more correlation here than with, say, Newton has the apple fall and then we cut to scenes of firebombing.
If I go to the loo and my water company decides it's cheaper to dump human faeces in the middle of the M1 motorway than to dispose of it properly, the solution isn't for me to stop going to the loo, it's to force my water company to stop doing that.
Which in turn will mean more expensive products. Products of imaginary Company A, which is responsible, will be more expensive than products of Company B, which can use all the tricks to be cheap (e.g. conflict minerals, child/slave labour, bribing^W lobbying government officials to take their e-waste).
And which products will the consumer buy? The better priced one...
Part of "making them pay" is making all of the companies pay, which makes your argument sort of moot. If not all companies are being made to pay, then you haven't done anything.
A well run landfill looks nothing like this and these are in no way a foregone conclusion of someone throwing away an old iPhone 3 or whatever.
There is no more correlation here than with, say, Newton has the apple fall and then we cut to scenes of firebombing.