repair-hostile is usually manufacturing or form factor efficient, but I'm not sure there's specifically a word for it as it's not really a goal unto itself - it just comes out of prioritizing those other goals
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Only cheaper if you can externalize all the environmental costs.
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I don't think so. Modern landfill is cheap and green, and carbon taxes are cheaper. It also increases the rate of innovation, ie you want to go through consumer goods to push upgrades (and yea, this isn't true for everything, but most candidates for long term are already in use)
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I’ve done some modeling on this. Design for durability makes a huge impact on carbon impact, and design for repairability is one of the big levers there. The landfill is not the problem (sequestered carbon) it’s the fact that new things are made as fast as old things go landfill.
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Sorry, can’t. This was a serious larger project involving several others. But Ellen MacArthur foundation stuff on circular economy has some broad strokes background ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-econo
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