The story of electronics

Reflections to http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-electronics/

I agree that this is a very serious problem. I think that this problem mostly affects the third world, where the dumping is made, but of course it affects the environment in the whole world.

Annie Leonard says that she wants longer lasting products, and of course that would be a great way to go, but I don’t think that change I possible. If the products would last longer, there would be less products to produce and people would get unemployed because of the low productivity.

I think that the thing we should focus on is the recycling possibility and the amount of toxic that are used in the production. If the products were easier to recycle the “mountains of E-waste “ would be much smaller and we wouldn’t have to produce so much new material for the products. Of course we would still need some new material for the production and it would still cost energy in the production, but I think it’s a large step in the right direction.

Annie Leonard also talks about how hard it is to repair the products and that it’s often cheaper to buy a new product than repair the old one. It is obviously a way for the producers to earn more money, and I think it is hard to prevent this unless there would be a law to stop this production. But as I said earlier: if the production was greener and recyclable the problem would be much smaller.