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We're constantly being encouraged to update and upgrade our tech, dumping our older but still functioning products in the process. Outlets pushing fast fashion having us taking the same approach with our clothes, and with excessive grocery shopping we are biting off, or at least buying, more than we can chew. All these discarded products have to go somewhere and a lot goes to landfill. Click or scroll through to discover the financial and environmental cost of our modern throwaway culture.
lovemoney staff
26 March 2020
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One factor, I will not call it a problem, is that technology is developing very fast and if we keep things until they are with out, we will be using obsolete and wasteful technologies. It is sometimes better to buy a new product because it is more efficient.
Apologies for any typos. This sites contrast between typing andb background is nill. It's very simple. If a product coste more to repair than to maintian, or replce, then you get a new onre, Most printeres are cheaper to repalce once the ink runs out. Are ypu seriously suggesting that we should spend more to kep an old product running than it costs for a brad new one, just to save the environmnet??? When governments start to do that, the people might follow.
Too much so called recycling just fuels more consumption. We need to design better quality goods so that they go on to have a second life after they have finished their primary one.
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