Questions tagged [manufacturing]

Is it possible to recognize products that have been designed and manufactured with built-in or programmed obsolescence in mind, before I buy them? Are there guidelines how to recognize such products? Or can I find a list of typical products/brands…

How can we, as consumers, persuade manufacturers to make their products more sustainable? The only things I've come up with (and try to do myself) Buy the most sustainable version of products. The idea is that if enough people do this,…

I was wondering about planned obsolescence in the hardware of electronic products like TVs and smartphones. Is this achieved through low quality parts that simply break over time or do manufacturers put in kill switches for this purpose? An example…