Why do we waste so much consumer electronic goods?

Four of my computer monitors failed over the years. These are seventeen inch Dell monitors that I have purchased over the years with computers that eventually became obsolete, and no longer could be effectively upgraded. I have used these monitors on multiple computers and they have lasted a long time, even outlasting the computers.

Even the cases them selves had proprietary mounting layout for components. I have always been told to make do, with what resources you have and always be grateful. Ninety percent of the time I usually am.

Like most consumers in this market we have today, if I have some extra cash available and a component fails, I pull it out and buy a new one to replace it. At other times I am barley able to feed myself, that's when I go into scavenge mode. So when I have to fix electronic components that fail or some other appliance fails, I look for the reason it failed and try to fix it or patch it up long enough to get by until I am able to buy a new item to replace it.

Sometimes this is very hard to do when you do not know anything about a subject your looking to “DIY” or do- it-yourself repair. Does anyone use the information ware houses anymore? oh what were they called? Oh Libraries! Easier to find information on the internet through your “Smart” phone! Tell me if smart phones were so smart why do they get the auto complete wrong 90% of the time!

I guess it is true what they say, “garbage in garbage out”

Anyway I am rambling. With a bit of research I learned how to fix these monitors. Turns out these Dell monitors have a manufacturing flaw. The manufacturer used a very cheep variety of capacitors in the power section of the PCB or “printed circuit board”. My cost to fix all four monitors? SEVEN US DOLLARS! Imagine how many thousands of these monitor that could be in our landfills that could have been fixed for a few cents and some time?

Today we also have electronic waste recycle companies across the United States but it is up to the consumer to drop electronic goods off at their collection sites. A lot of people do not know about these companies and so toss their broken, non functional, Tired propitiatory consumer crap into the landfill.

Before you throw out that tired propitiatory consumer crap of yours, remember this article and think a moment to recall if you know of someone in your life that likes fixing things! Give it them! Or deposit it at the nearest electronics waste collection center and not your local landfill.

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