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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Making easy-to-repair items

Making easy-to-repair items

  • Constructing repairable products
  • Designing deconstructable durable goods

Broader

Shifting from materials-intensive growth in developed countries
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Ensuring environmentally responsible production
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Marketing green products
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Intensifying existing resource use
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Advancing eco-effectiveness
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Designing products
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Facilitates

Establishing local recycling centres
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Enabling local appliance repair
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Facilitated by

Extending producer responsibility
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Promoting product stewardship
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Problem

Planned obsolescence
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Manufacture of substandard products
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Inadequate equipment maintenance
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Defective product manufacture
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Unproven repair market
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Unethical practices in manufacturing
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Inaccessible supply of repair materials
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Excessive temporary repairs
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Value

Disrepair
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Amenities » Maintenance
  • Commerce » Merchandise
  • Industry » Products
  • Design » Design
    • Content quality
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    Language
    English
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024