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Making easy-to-repair items
Constructing repairable products
Designing deconstructable durable goods
Broader
Shifting from materials-intensive growth in developed countries
Marketing green products
Intensifying existing resource use
Ensuring environmentally responsible production
Advancing eco-effectiveness
Designing products
Facilitates
Establishing local recycling centres
Enabling local appliance repair
Facilitated by
Promoting product stewardship
Extending producer responsibility
Problem
Unproven repair market
Unethical practices in manufacturing
Unavailable spare parts
Prolonged repair services
Prohibitive cost of equipment maintenance
Planned obsolescence
Manufacture of substandard products
Inadequate equipment maintenance
Inaccessible supply of repair materials
Excessive temporary repairs
Defective product manufacture
Value
Disrepair
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