Quote Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
If products last forever, companies all go bust.
So the long term economics case is also dire...
This is a fundamental flaw in the economic system: the system is set up to rely on the generation of waste, and yet the build-up of waste is one of the biggest environmental problems faced by the world today.

https://learn.tearfund.org/en/resour...cular_economy/

https://learn.tearfund.org/~/media/f...e-en.pdf?la=en
As someone said, anybody who thinks that growth can continue indefinitely on a finite planet is either an idiot or an economist.

So I support the EU in their rather small efforts to alleviate the problem. Things need to change.