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  Altria at 03:06 PM JST - 2nd December

  More stuff that people have to dump in the mountains.

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  escape_artist at 04:53 PM JST - 2nd December

  I bought a new flat-screen monitor yesterday and was told by the salesclerk that the things are made to last 3-5 years. He spoke as if he was proud of how long that was, too. I cringed at the thought but had to buy something.

  There's such an out-of-space, out-of-mind gomi mentality here. People spend so much time worrying about sorting all the tiny recyclable stuff, which is all fine, but there doesn't really seem to be that much concern about larger things and their effects on the environment later among Japanese manufacturers, nor from Japan's totally lame government more worried about encouraging people to eat more [white] rice than actually fostering good health.

  But the gomi problem is only going to get worse unless manufacturers dump their long-standing policy of "planned obsolescence" [pun intended].

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtml and http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4810

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