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I want both a repairability index and a recyclability index, with increased taxes on sales of items that are less repairable or recyclable. Those items are more costly to repair or recycle, and thus more wasteful and inefficient.

I think it's better to align financial incentives.

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And what will likely happen is that as with now Recycle will be the choice. It's the less efficient of the 3 Rs; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. There was actually an order to those but we've tended to skip past the two meaningful actions and jumped straight to recycle which at times does nothing for environment and certainly not for our pockets.

Repairability might not be interesting for something that people only own for three years. It's hard to measure for new devices, but reliability is just as important.

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