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Delays in construction are also waste but not so visceral or visible. It might have turned out that it was cheaper to destroy them than have them salvaged, incl
by exporectomy 5y ago
Delays in construction are also waste but not so visceral or visible. It might have turned out that it was cheaper to destroy them than have them salvaged, including the labor cost of managing the salvage.
- hellbannedguy 5y ago"free solar panels on CraigsList. Must be gone in 1.5 days. Must sign a liability waiver before removing--via email." Gone.
- xxs 5y agoHard (or impossible) to that as company... way way more paperwork.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThat requires someone to put in a conscious effort to manage and people are lazy when it's not their money. Also (thanks in large part to internet commenters, many of whom on HN fit this archetype) people are afraid that a liability waver doesn't cover them when in reality unless there are aggravating circumstances a liability waver pretty much always caps your loss at the consult fee required to get your lawyer to tell the ambulance chaser to f off.
- forsakenharmony 5y agoI feel like there should be laws preventing anyone from destroying something someone else could use We can't just throw everything away, no matter if it's cheaper, we will run out of resources if we don't recycle
- Kalium 5y agoWhat was the last thing you threw away that couldn't be used by someone else? Anyone at all?
- exporectomy 5y agoRecycling can only slow the loss of raw materials, not prevent it. So we'll either run out eventually anyway or we won't run out anyway. Your argument doesn't work.