planned obsolescence

Obsolescence programmée : l’Europe doit encore faire un effort pour la durabilité des produits

Le 14 juillet 2022, la fête nationale française s’est muée en petite fête européenne de la durabilité des produits. Le Comité Economique et Social européen (CESE) a adopté un avis prometteur sur le sujet « Consommateurs et Transition verte » (1), sur la base de propositions de la Commission Européenne.

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50 measures for sustainable consumption and production

On the occasion of the European elections, HOP publishes its White Paper and proposes 50 measures for sustainable consumption and production. It is a public policy guide for a society without accelerated obsolescence. Among the key recommendations: the introduction of a sustainability index, courses to learn how to repair as soon as possible, and the creation of a sustainable consumption and production index.

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Obsolescence or "A Manifestation of Purpose"

The fruit of a philosophical primer, to think "the crisis" by the O and briefly make it dialogue with the socio-economic crises of the capitalist world (cycle, structuring and conjuncture), the author ventures on the track of a mechanical word: obsolescence, which refers to the technical environment of man and qualifies it. After

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This obsolescence of an uncertain future...

As part of the examination of the draft law on the energy transition, the National Assembly has just voted this Friday evening, October 10, for "programmed obsolescence" to be considered as a deception "on the life span of the product intentionally shortened at the time of its design". Which could be

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