John wrote:
I think that production of un-necessary stuff is a bigger problem:

eg. * Getting a new phone charger with your new phone when your old one was
okay (should be optional to make you think)

Except that almost every phone that anyone in my family has ever owned
(even from the same manufacturer) has needed a different charger. Why
the hell couldn't that (ie voltage/plug type) have been standardised
years ago, which would have allowed the above eg to have happened?

David