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Paul Carpenter

On Monday, in article

"Lostgallifreyan" wrote:

Henry wrote in
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This is crap buying a bigscreen TV with a one year
warranty and it goes tits up eight months out of warranty and no
longer supported. All they are doing is filling our landfills and
forcing us to buy their new products on a regular schedule. Won't be
long before automobiles will follow!

That's something that will be legislated against. If ROHS can be forced to
avoid dangerous waste, so can this, and in this case I think the
legislation will probably be more welcome. Once a customer is not able to
discard eletronics as if they were biodegradable rags,

In Europe the upcoming WEEE directive, is geared at the electrical being
returned to manufacturer to dispose of dead equipment. This will probably
effect inkjet printers more than TVs.

They are already moves on vehicles to do the same, especially as the last
thrity years has seen an increase in plastic and reduction in metal in
vehicles.

The aircraft industry is already doing schemes to do this, to avoid sections
or whole old planes being dumped in the seas. Also before long there is
likely to to be several thousand aircraft a year being scrapped as many
aircraft like early 747s reaching 30 years old

..the service industry
might start looking better again. There might be a heathy return of second
hand shops too, because as the value of used goods rises, so will the
respect for them, so the crime which helped the demise of the second hand
eletronics trade will be guarded against, at least enough to establish the
return of that trade. I think people would probably rather buy second hand
gear from a shop with a decent service dept...

Considering some of the chnages to things like TVs Radios and Hifis with
going digital, widescreen and other things, most of the old stuff and
early versions of new schemes will not be useable. As soon as some
types of flat screens start developing faults in the highly integrated
glass the vast bulk of it is only scrap, and not repairable without
very complex clean rooms.

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