[formula1]

- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen

- integrating garbage management as part of the product - so that entail would subsidies for biodegradable and taxes for unrecycleable materials? Lets say a coke bottle is recycleable. It is now up to the consumer to recycle it. A television has many parts, some unrecycleable, some recycleable. Its often more expensive for a consumer to recycle it than to just dump it.

[orbat]

- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen

It's trivial to prove for for e.g. inkjet printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Programme....

The Phoebus lightbulb cartel is probably the first group of manufacturers to actually do planned obsolescence http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbu...

[1812calif]

In the US, many states require the consumer pay a deposit upon purchase of a Coke bottle. On return, this is refunded.