Last week I tried to repair one burnt out heating element of an Oster toaster oven. But found that the elements were welded in such a way that it was impossible to remove them. So the whole thing went into the landfill.
As long as it’s cheaper to extract material from the Earth, build unrepairably, and dispose than to repair and recycle, I don’t see the situation changing. Of course, the real total costs get paid much later. How do we build them in to the initial cost?
