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Feb
This article covers: How planned obsolescence was implemented over a century ago and its effects on our behavior and way of thinking about the products we buy everyday. The positive and negative sides of planned obsolescence as well as recent scandals. Why Right to Repair laws are so important. How planned obsolescence is creating excess waste and using up our resources, as well as proposed solutions such as the circular economic model. Exciting new legislation that was introduced to the House in 2021 called the Fair Repair Act. In 2013, a carbon filament light bulb in Livermore, California went out…