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Sunday, March 01, 2015
The old TV still does it, but the new one is so much cooler – so many buying decisions are made. However, something is going on in Verbraucherbewusstein, a study by the Federal Environment Agency. Now only one essential question is still open.
Consumers exchange products faster than before. Especially with flat panel TVs is the “First-life” short, even if the devices still worked perfectly, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) 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 initial useful life 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 more quickly than they were 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 of consumers a functioning device with a better one -. bought two thirds a new, 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 told to do so.
Projected wear not detected
Almost remained more or less equal according to the 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.
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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 is a very complex picture. That gives devices are used shorter, has different causes, “said UBA President Maria Krautzberger. “The extent to which a scheduled wear is responsible clarify we are now in the second half of the study.” In any case, strategies should be to extend the useful life of equipment submitted both to the manufacturer and to the consumer.
Source: n-tv.de
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