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Hello and welcome to the naked scientists,

the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine

with me James Titco.

This week, whatever happened to make do and mend?

Many of us, it seems, have lost the ability to fix the things we buy.

So are manufacturers on a mission to make things impossible to fix, forcing us to buy new ones?

Or should we be taking more personal responsibility to reduce waste?

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. day. According to U-S switch, the UK generates the second highest amount of electronic waste or e-waste of anywhere in the world.

24 kilograms worth of phones, laptops, radios, vacuum cleaners, etc.

Are dumped by each of us every year on average in landfill.

The reason?

Well, on the whole, we've become more averse to trying to fix the things we own when they break.

It could be of course that technology has moved on to the point that's beyond the ability of anyone who isn't an expert to fix it, but increasingly people are arguing that much of the blame lies with manufacturers intentionally making their products impossible to repair, whether that's because spares are just not available, or the thing is sealed shut and almost impossible to access.

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