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> “The goal for all the reverse logistics stuff,” says Roberson, “is to keep things out of the landfill.” Or rather, to make sure these things are bought and t
by Freak_NL 1y ago
> “The goal for all the reverse logistics stuff,” says Roberson, “is to keep things out of the landfill.”
Or rather, to make sure these things are bought and thrown out by consumers instead. Getting rid of unused products costs money unless you have a loophole that allows offloading it onto some poorer country (cf. Atacama desert clothing dump).
- pavel_lishin 1y agoWell, ideally bought - and used for awhile - before being thrown directly into the garbage. Almost everything we buy is going to end up in the trash, sooner or later.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago> Getting rid of unused products costs money Storing unsold product also costs money. A brick-and-mortar storefront is extremely conscious of what's allowed on their shelves, because if the product isn't moving, it's not only an overhead cost that they are paying rent, keeping the lights on, doing maintenance, but also an opportunity cost of something else that could be put on the shelf and sold and taken away by a customer. So if you toss 30 cubic meters of junk in a storage locker, and it doesn't appreciate in value, and you pay rent on the storage locker for 3 years, but you still can't use your junk, and it costs you $$$ to sort it and transport it away, you should stop holding your junk so tightly.