If it wasn't for the fact that benefit from today's throw away society I'd be out raged by it. People have no care about throwing out anything that is outdated even marginally or broken however slightly it's sick....
Aye, just think of the bloody land fills!
And y'know, this is going to bite us in the ass soon, since we're using up the world's rarest elements at a frightful rate and throwing them away. All these new TeeVee designs are gonna be useless when they run out of chromium or whatever that they need for 'em. Great article in
New Scientist a while ago on this; lesse if I can find it...
Okay, here it is. Dunno if you can view it without a subscription, but I expect you can always find out!
Earth's natural wealth: an audit (23 May 2007)