We became a throw-away society - the days of repair and reuse that our parents described with rosy-tinted spectacles has become the age of reject and replace.  When something breaks or just gets a bit old, boring, or no longer has "street cred", it's too often thrown out. It's said that things were no longer built to last.

We can do some of "our bit" for the world by going back, where appropriate, to repair, reuse, recycle. The average life of a washing machine is 11 years and of a car 12 years - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity , but can that be increased?  A decade or two, perhaps we looked in some horror at our bohemian neighbour driving his old banger around but these days, thank goodness, there's much to be admired in his approach.  Of course, there's a balance to consider there - a new car may be much cleaner to the environment, much more efficient and run on renewable electricity rather than exhausting fossil fuel.

It makes sense to extend washing machine life, car life, the life of knives and forks, towels, pots and pans and pens and pencils.  For the environment and for our own wallets too.



Added - how easy was that to read?
See https://readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php

Flesch Reading Ease score: 69.2 (text scale)
Flesch Reading Ease scored your text: standard / average.

Gunning Fog: 10.1 (text scale)
Gunning Fog scored your text: fairly easy to read.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.2
Grade level: Eighth Grade.

The Coleman-Liau Index: 8
Grade level: Eighth grade

The SMOG Index: 6.7
Grade level: Seventh Grade

Automated Readability Index: 8.4
Grade level: 12-14 yrs. old (Seventh and Eighth graders)

Linsear Write Formula : 9.4
Grade level: Ninth Grade.

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