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I haven't seen the repairability index yet it sounds very arbitrary and prone to be gamed. There is no need to micro manage how a device manufacturer designs t
by gerash 5y ago
I haven't seen the repairability index yet it sounds very arbitrary and prone to be gamed.
There is no need to micro manage how a device manufacturer designs their products as long as they offset the pollution they create by either paying the local governments to dig more landfills or recycle their own products or send it over to someone who can recycle.
There are still open problems on how to measure the pollution but it's a more flexible approach than a repairability score.
- lolinder 5y agoPaying for more landfills hardly offsets the pollution from a smartphone. Recycling might be better, but my understanding is that the worst damage is done in the mining/refining/manufacturing, not in the final home in a landfill.
- socialdemocrat 5y agoExactly, which is why you would want products which last long or are easy to repair. This reduces the need to manufacture lots of devices. Obviously this goes against the desires of companies which want to maximum sales.
- Google234 5y agoThere’s almost infinite volume underground and an huge amount of unlivable space (like deserts) to place the minuscule amount of trash that we produce.
- socialdemocrat 5y agoRecycling it’s much worse for the environment than simply reusing or repairing an existing product. Markets are not perfect, so why does regulations need to be perfect? They just need to be better than the alternative.