[matt_heimer]

Ease of recycling is not prioritized during design or manufacturing because there is no monetary incentive (for the manufacturer) to do so it most cases. It would eat into profits. Simple as that.

Unless a component is expensive to manufactory and recycling/reuse could save the manufacturer money it won't happen. The only real solution are laws requiring it.

[xyst]

It should be regulated to make devices repairable and upgradeable.

End soldering of components to motherboard. Make service manuals publicly available. Components sold and available.

[marcosdumay]

At some point, sockets add enough failure modes that making components switchable increases the amount of waste. And it's not a far, theoretical point; it's one we often meet in practice.

Any regulation about that has to be detail-focused and conservative.

[addaon]

> End soldering of components to motherboard.

What do you see as the alternative here? Conductive epoxy is way less repairable than solder. Sockets are… components; and tend to be more expensive and higher failure rate than what’s socketed in them, except for extreme cases of very large ICs. Press fit requires special tooling, so repairability is much worse… what’s left?

[aristofun]

NO! We have enough regulations already

[gtowey]

The full cost of recycling things should be part of the cost of the product at the time of sale.

What you would find quickly, is that there is little to no profit on the manufacturing and sale of new devices and the value of repairs and reuse would skyrocket.

Right now companies are allowed to steal money from the future by ignoring the problem of what happens to these devices once they leave the factory. The truth is that they become hazardous waste, and lock away valuable resources inside of trash.

The reality is that there is no real economic benefit to the current model of ever increasing sales of new goods. But the capitalists, as ever, have been extracting money out of it by making the unpleasant, expensive parts someone else's liability. Namely ours.

Riches built from value extraction and arbitrage against the future. And most of us cannot conceive of it being any other way.