In rec.antiques.radio+phono Scott W. Harvey wrote:
About four to six times a year, I go to our local dump to deposit
refuse that is the result of seasonal cleaning. Every time I am there,
I see an enormous dumpster that is just FILLED FILLED FILLED to over
the top with late-model electronic junk of every description. It makes
me sick.......These items are totally useless albatrosses. No one can
repair them, cannabilization for useful parts is almost impossible,
and disposal in an environmentally acceptable manner is quite
expensive.

I bet at least half of those is easily repairable ($5 in parts, an hour
labour at most). Most people don't consider repairing because it is
cheap to buy a new one. It's not the bad design per se. Just make the
stuff more expensive (import taxes) and demand a 3 year warranty or so.

IMHO, These items should be put on a giant barge and sent back to the
country of origin with the caveat that a trade embargo will be imposed
against any country that refuses to take them back. Maybe when China,
Mexico, and other cheap-labor countries experience first hand what a
colossal pain it is to deal with the ass end of their product's
mercilessly short life cycles, maybe they won't dump quite so much of
this junk on our shores.

I can't say for sure whther this would work (items may just be dumped
into the ocean), but it could be an idea.

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Met vriendelijke groet,

Maarten Bakker.