Roger Hayter  wrote:   
   > This is wildly untrue. What makes things "throw away" is that we can make   
   them   
   > so cheaply that the labour to repair them is too expensive for it to be   
   > economic. But modern electronic goods are orders of magnitude more reliable   
   > than the consumer electronic goods of yesteryear, so the problem is *not* the   
   > quality of the goods.   
   >   
   > What needs investing in the safe recycling of electronic parts, and I would   
   > suggest that both consumers and manufacturers should be responsible for this.   
   >   
      
   Demand for new items increases with income. After a while environmental   
   responsibility develops. Decoupling that, i.e. shifting labor and financial   
   returns firmly away from production, has not been seen yet.   
      
   Is my belief many product categories have seen enough production to last   
   for generations. Unfortunately I don’t see any will to plan and execute a   
   seismic shift in economies which could, even so briefly, pause current   
   capital accumulation streams.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)