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- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen - integrating garbage management as part of the product - so that enta
by formula1 10y ago
- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen
- integrating garbage management as part of the product - so that entail would subsidies for biodegradable and taxes for unrecycleable materials? Lets say a coke bottle is recycleable. It is now up to the consumer to recycle it. A television has many parts, some unrecycleable, some recycleable. Its often more expensive for a consumer to recycle it than to just dump it.
- 1812calif 10y agoIn the US, many states require the consumer pay a deposit upon purchase of a Coke bottle. On return, this is refunded.
- orbat 10y ago- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen It's trivial to prove for for e.g. inkjet printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Programmed_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Programme.... The Phoebus lightbulb cartel is probably the first group of manufacturers to actually do planned obsolescence http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbu...