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It's entirely possible that the extra material required to make items that can be repaired, wastes more material than making objects that are "disposable"

Modern manufactured goods have -huge- volumes (there are a lot of people on this planet) and low failure rates.

If serviceability takes more material, it will probably be more waste, than otherwise.



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