We don’t throw away cars with faulty batteries. We expect to fix something when it’s broken. At least we did for a few hundred years.

“We used to have vacuum and TV repair shops, and now it’s garbage trucks taking our stuff away,” ..The very right to keep the products you own for a long time is being taken away, simply because the disposable society is promoted by manufacturers seeking bigger profits for shareholders.

According to the iFixIt website, for every 1,000 tons of electronics, landfilling creates zero jobs, recycling creates 15, and repairing creates 200 jobs.

Excellent read on fighting the corporations and their built in obsolescence here:

https://nextcity.org/features/view/the-case-to-repair-and-not-to-replace