Consumer replace products faster than before. Televisions, washing machines and tumble increasingly early replaced by new models. The devices to exchange time are not always broken, but consumers tend to throw away.
Especially with flat panel TVs is the “First-life” short even if the devices still worked perfectly, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) announced on Sunday in Dessau, citing a long-term study. The so-called obsolescence study should clarify whether manufacturers shorten the life of products targeted. Notes on early defects there are about household appliances
intermediate results at half-time according to the study exchanged in 2012 a quarter of the consumer’s flat due to technical failures from most of -. 60 percent – replaced its working device by an even better. On average, the replaced device of 2012 was 5.6 years old, according to the study. The average first-time use of a tube television was from 2005 to 2012, however, between ten and twelve years.
Replace Also in the kitchen or in the laundry room consumers use their devices faster than a few years ago: From 2004 to 2012/2013, the initial useful life of washing machines, dryers and refrigerators reduced by one year to an average of 13 years
Unlike TVs but exchanged only a third. the consumer a functioning device with a better one – two-thirds bought a new one, because the old one was broken. “We can say that more waxing machines, refrigerators and dryers are defective within five years than it was ten years ago,” the Federal Environment Agency announced this with.
Almost remained almost identical study, however, the Erstnutzungsdauer of notebooks. Tap between five and six years and surf the consumer with their device. The reasons for the exchange have, however, changed dramatically: While in 2004 only 70 percent of the functional units replaced due to a technical innovation and the desire for a better notebook, this is 2012/2013 have been “only around a quarter of cases” so, it is stated in the study.
The interim report is based, according to the Federal Environmental Agency primarily on the results of consumer surveys representative of the Society for Consumer Research. Based on the interim results still did not find evidence that manufacturers internals “selective” vulnerabilities in their products. The Erstnutzungsdauer not take into account possible future continued use of equipment by other consumers who buy used this for example.
“When using electrical and electronic equipment results in a very complex picture that devices used shorter. are different causes has, “said UBA President Maria Krautzberger. “The extent to which a scheduled wear is responsible clarify is now in the second half of the study.” In any case strategy should be to extend the useful life of equipment submitted both to the manufacturer and to the consumer
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