RE: Recycling Tips!
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because I realised how "dumb" most of the products are. We don't build fixable products anymore, but rather plastic crap that don't have a full-cycle program either.
Oh for sure! It drives me crazy. Like I have some of my decades old tech - my sewing machine, typewriter, cassette player, etc. - all still work fine. But get a modern appliance to last that long? No way. And not just tech-tech, but everything is built to break nowadays. Planned obsolescence and throwaway culture is on purpose so the corporations can make more money.
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That. And the hassle to provide parts for 'fixable' stuff. It's easier to build a cheap, replaceable, product than providing parts (for the most part). One example: I still use my grandma's table fan; it's sturdy and I can disassemble the whole thing. The other day one of our cheap fans broke down, motor gave up, no fix for that. Also, I had to replace a hose on our washing machine... for Christ sake! The threaded end crumbled but they only sold the whole hose + thread, when some shop could easily press-fit a new thread in there. So I had to replace the whole thing and throw away a perfectly fine hose.
I once took my boots to a shoe repair guy who worked out of a nearby dry cleaners, and sooooo many people were shocked that I had bothered to repair boots. It just needed a new heel bottom as it had worn out but the rest of the shoe was perfectly fine. Since they were that really flat type of sole, it's not like a structured thing like sneakers where wear will mean a loss of support.
I was quite pleased that there was actually a mender still in business that I could take them to.