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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (82922)9/8/2008 12:04:57 PM
From: Stan J. Czernel  Read Replies (1) of 541761
 
Returning the product to the manufacturer of course won't work

I have told you about Interface co - the company that leases its carpet services. Its goal is zero landfill - and it is very close to it. By reprocessing the old carpet into new carpet (it was designed for this) with no waste, it saves most of the cost of making carpet from virgin materials. They make a great profit. I could site other examples.

Why would retrieving an old refrigerator or washer be cost prohibitive? It's gotta be dragged somewhere - unless you plan to think of it as modern art, permanently installed in your kitchen. Does taking it to the dump - where the value of all that recyclable material is lost, and becomes toxic waste - makes more sense? If the manufacturer is smart, they figure out a way to redesign the product so that it can be refurbished and resold.

Businesses are like organisms - they respond to changes in the environment. Who knows where this will take creative and innovative corporations? The constraint is needed to staunch the bloody flow into landfills and squeeze the most utility out of ever-diminishing natural resources. Corporations - when they stop kicking and screaming - will find this constraint freeing; an opportunity for new profits.
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