[totalZero]

By your logic, user-replaceable filters create a waste stream of "used" filters, and user-replaceable light bulbs create a waste stream of "used" light bulbs.

I personally like nonserviceable batteries because I want my devices to be water resistant, but I'd be more hesitant to throw a battery in the trash than I would be to throw a dead device in the trash.

People have the option of recycling used devices, whether they be battery devices or smartphone devices, at a multitude of retailers.

[hinkley]

The light bulb cartels are making lightbulbs that last 18 months on purpose. We should have had 20 year light bulbs fifty years ago.

Only the LEDs I have in table lamps have survived more than five years. All enclosed bulbs die from cheap components and heat damage.

[iamerroragent]

"Only the LEDs I have in table lamps have survived more than five years. All enclosed bulbs die from cheap components and heat damage. "

Part of the problem is trying to make LEDs work in our preexisting lighting systems which requires components to make a low voltage DC light work with our existing AC wiring.

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-...

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-l-e-d-quanda...

> “My starting point is, get the economics right,” Tim Cooper, a design professor who heads the sustainable-consumption research group at Nottingham Trent University, told me. It’s already possible to buy durable products, he said—Miele washing machines, Vitsoe shelving, Jaguar cars. But, because such products command premium prices, they remain niche goods; by Cooper’s estimate they make up less than five per cent of the market. To truly change a light bulb will require policy changes—whether regulatory, market-based, or voluntary within industries—that support longer product lifetimes