Where once it was believed that design would always be predicated on the need to take things apart and repair or recycle them, the fact is that the opposite has increasingly become true. Electronic devices, in particular, have seen a fundamental shift whereby disposability is increasingly considered the norm - even in expensive devices. Due to their inherent cost, these devices have always been constructed in a way that they could be disassembled for repair should they go wrong. We are familiar with sending these devices to an authorised repairer who would disassemble and replace the faulty component, reassemble, test and return.
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