> submitted back to the manufacturer and properly recycled at no cost to the user. Who defines "useful lifetime" though? The manufacturer would then be even mo

> submitted back to the manufacturer and properly recycled at no cost to the user. Who defines "useful lifetime" though? The manufacturer would then be even more compelled to make engineer planned obsolescence since no one wants to be on the hook for having to take back products 10, 20, or even 40 years from now. But keeping electronics operational for multiple decades is one of the goals of right-to-repair. With your proposal we'd have nothing but short lifetime disposable electronics. We should be focusing on solutions that create less waste, not more.