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Looking from the other side, it's been decades now and we haven't seem much innovation on electric toothbrushes or beard trimmers. Except we're still stuck with
by makeitdouble 5y ago
Looking from the other side, it's been decades now and we haven't seem much innovation on electric toothbrushes or beard trimmers. Except we're still stuck with a non replaceable design.
You'll see your flexible phone as the peak device for 5 years, then again will come the right to repair and battery issues.
Perhaps your point could be that there needs to be a process to get an exception from this law for a year or two if the committee wants to help some technically chalenging devices. But expecting all makers to do the right thing by themselves is unrealistic (and no, "voting with your wallet" doesn't help when a set of brand dominate a market and collude on the issue)
- AlchemistCamp 5y agoThey use considerably less in terms of raw materials than they did 20 years ago. The same is also true even for apparently very simple things like soft drink cans! Changes were driven by market forces.
- makeitdouble 5y agoWouldn't the amount of raw material be sheer process optimization, driven by production costs ? If they came up with easier to recycle designs I'd hear you, but the only industry I see having done real efforts is the plastic bottling industry, and it is still hands down one of the worse plastic producer, even considering recycling.
- AlchemistCamp 5y agoThe reduction in raw material is from finding structurally sound ways of using less, both in the product itself and in the packaging. Yes, that's driven by production costs.