Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
that's disappointing.
Not to get on my soapbox (but here I go stepping up anyway), but this irritates me about our "disposable" society. Something is made of poor quality, it breaks, and you have to throw it away and buy a new one. I'd rather spend more, have it last longer, and even pay to repair it than to always have the only option to be to throw it away. Grrr... (climbing down, now).
I totally agree with you! Everything is made to be broken these days so that consumers keep buying products. When my 18 year old washing machine needed replacing (still worked but was very inefficient), I was told that machines these days will only last about 10 year.

It's fine and dandy for the manufacturers, but the amount of garbage that this results in sounds just too reckless IMHO. Sure, some bits can be recycled, but I think people by and large just take them to the dump and be done with it.

I'm not going to tinker with it, I'm so mechanically disinclined all I'll end up doing is making a mess. So, I'll just take it to the recyling depot and hope that it will be dismantled and disposed of properly.