bertsmobile1
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Yes
The whole thing is driven by greed
The consumer actually pays nearly the same if they buy cheap and replace rather than repair
The big difference in Stihl, Husqvarna, Briggs, Stanley GE, Ford etc etc etc get nearly all of the money with the disposal system and higher volumes allows greater profits from lower margins making the goods appear to be cheaper but if course the consumption of resources increases at a massive rate & of course it costs the consumers time as being worth zero while they are continually deciding what to buy
With the repair method, the factories do not get the volume so as they need to make the same amount of total profit, prices have to rise
On top of that they only get one lot of profits from you every 20 to 30 years because the repairer makes the profits from repair.
I get my boots resoled
The combat heel & sole costs $ 35 wholesale and the bootmaker charges $ 15 to fit them including stitching the toe on because the modern glues are nowhere near as strong as the old Benzine based ones were
New boots are only $ 50 so the ones I am wearing now that have been resoled 5 times could have been replaced but it takes a long time to wear in a pair of steel caps & of course the old boot can not be recycled
The workshop produces one 5 gal bucket of garbage a month and my house generates two 5 gallon buckets of waste a year.
Everything that can be recycled or repurposed is.
200 football fields of native forrest are cut down annually just to make the packaging for apple I phones in order to save the extra $ 1.75 per package it would cost to use 100% recycled paper, and that is on a $ 500+ phone which has over $ 300 of gross mark up
The whole thing is driven by greed
The consumer actually pays nearly the same if they buy cheap and replace rather than repair
The big difference in Stihl, Husqvarna, Briggs, Stanley GE, Ford etc etc etc get nearly all of the money with the disposal system and higher volumes allows greater profits from lower margins making the goods appear to be cheaper but if course the consumption of resources increases at a massive rate & of course it costs the consumers time as being worth zero while they are continually deciding what to buy
With the repair method, the factories do not get the volume so as they need to make the same amount of total profit, prices have to rise
On top of that they only get one lot of profits from you every 20 to 30 years because the repairer makes the profits from repair.
I get my boots resoled
The combat heel & sole costs $ 35 wholesale and the bootmaker charges $ 15 to fit them including stitching the toe on because the modern glues are nowhere near as strong as the old Benzine based ones were
New boots are only $ 50 so the ones I am wearing now that have been resoled 5 times could have been replaced but it takes a long time to wear in a pair of steel caps & of course the old boot can not be recycled
The workshop produces one 5 gal bucket of garbage a month and my house generates two 5 gallon buckets of waste a year.
Everything that can be recycled or repurposed is.
200 football fields of native forrest are cut down annually just to make the packaging for apple I phones in order to save the extra $ 1.75 per package it would cost to use 100% recycled paper, and that is on a $ 500+ phone which has over $ 300 of gross mark up
