1000 Flowers for the Planet - #489 Demand Repairable Goods
These days, most household goods are made to
last only a couple of years. As well as being poorly made, they are structured
in such a way that they cannot be repaired. Televisions are made with closed
cases so they cannot be opened to access the workings and repair what may have gone
wrong. See the story at http://www.thesecretlifeofthings.com/
where you can gather a lot of information. It’s time we put an end to this
wasteful practice. It is only designed to put more money in the pockets of corporations.
Think of the amount of resources being mined out of the ground, the energy that
has to be generated to do that, the water that’s used, the transportation of
everything, only to waste it all in a couple of short years by chucking it into
landfill. We need to demand better quality
goods, ones that last a long time and that can be repaired when they break
down.
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