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I have strong feeling that in the coming decades we will see strong growth in the re-usable / repairable product market. It's high time we got more creative in
by andrew_eit 6y ago
I have strong feeling that in the coming decades we will see strong growth in the re-usable / repairable product market.
It's high time we got more creative in the products we mass produce, we've grown complacent, something as simple as the plastic bag or the plastic straw have caused such environmental destruction yet can actually be phased out with behavioural modifications.
I would also argue that reusability and repairability is a part of the equation of 'long-term economic mass production', at least for day-to-day necessities where sterilisation isn't paramount.
Seriously, just looking at what I have lying around at home, even something as mundane and as simple as a broom seems to have special plastic elements (plastic hook on the top to hang on a wall, plastic lining in on the pole).
There's a lot of unnecessary un-recyclable waste out there and while banning Single-Use plastics is a great step in the right direction, we need a paradigm shift in how we think about the objects we construct.
- vondur 6y agoI miss having glass Coke bottles. I can’t remember what shopping ing was like when I was really young, but I’d imagine plastic containers were rare. (1970’s)