The lid's been lifted from a whole can of worms judging by your report on the hi-fi industry's struggle to keep up with calls for a 'greener' approach [HFN April '08]. The extra burden of the WEEE Directive, and alike, may become the breaking point for many specialist companies, while the multinational conglomerates will be forced to swallow the costs. Paul Miller's editorial in the same issue had me thinking about this whole matter. To my mind the main worries over the consumer electronic industry's lack of eco-friendliness are two-fold. Firstly, the fact that more and more products seem to be designed with in-built obsolescence and, secondly, how so much equipment is made many thousands of miles away from where it is bought by the consumer and used.
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