Not necessarily. Remember that cheaper to make often also means less resource intensive. Some IKEA products are little more than very well engineered and carefu

Not necessarily. Remember that cheaper to make often also means less resource intensive. Some IKEA products are little more than very well engineered and carefully packaged cardboard without looking like it (the LACK table, for example, but also the newer wardrobe doors). Sending it to the local waste-to-energy plant and buying new stuff, three times, doesn't necessarily have to be meaningfully worse for the environment than buying "solid" stuff once, then moving it twice over a long distance (in a relatively inefficient, one-off move rather than large-scale logistics).