What’s better for the environment:
- mass-produced, large-batch consumer products that are created long before the demand for them is known and are designed to be thrown out rather than repaired?
- small-batch items designed and created specifically for someone who wants them and can be repaired if they break?
There’s all sorts of other factors that would need to be looked at (manufacturing inefficiency, potential for recycling, etc) but I suspect the second is at least no worse than the first.
