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The problem here is with the time delay between manufacturing and the waste, especially as many manufacturers are abroad and short-lived. It's feasible to enfo

The problem here is with the time delay between manufacturing and the waste, especially as many manufacturers are abroad and short-lived. It's feasible to enforce repairability conditions and documentation requirements before a device is sold, at the point of manufacture or import - if you're not compliant, you get excluded from the market. It's not feasible to reliably and effectively enforce consequences for manufacturers years down the road, when it's plausible that the original overseas manufacturer and the importer/wholesale distributor both have shuttered their operations. We can't wait and see how much waste will be generated from this device, we if we want to charge device makers a percentage based on how long before it enters the waste stream, this needs to be based on an up-front guesstimate - which IMHO is a subjective metric can't be reliable and just invites corruption and abuse.

ogre_codes 6y ago
> It's feasible to enforce repairability conditions and documentation requirements before a device is sold, at the point of manufacture or import - if you're not compliant, you get excluded from the market. Yes. Someone else pointed out just charging for waste at the time of manufacture/ import and that is an excellent way to resolve this. Though companies which reclaim/ recycle old products should get credit for that effort as well.
- corty 6y ago
  In Germany, producers or importers of electric and electronic devices are already paying for collection and recycling or disposal. https://www.stiftung-ear.de/de/startseite https://www.stiftung-ear.de/de/startseite Didn't reduce the volume of the respective waste and didn't prolong lifetime of products in the slightest.