Should the sale of second-hand electrical items be banned?

Of course you could offer lots of statistics, if you bothered to do the research. But the people who compile those statistics, never recommend that people can't buy second hand. In fact, people are being encouraged in this age of recycling to pass on appliances to other people in need.

It's not "turned in to", it's peoples patience wearing out

Beliefs and opinions can, despite what some people thing, be utterly wrong and nonsensical. You've now admitted this is a personal belief based on nothing. And it is wrong and nonsensical

Considering you think a normal washing machine costs 500, I'm sure your local electrical retailer loves when you walk in the door

The second hand market for kitchen appliances is absolutely tiny compared to other electronics. I can't say I've ever bought a second hand washing machine or know of someone else who has.

They tend to be bought new and used until broken.

The main second hand electronic market is in smaller consumer devices (Which would be the likes of what some second hand shops and the car boots you mentioned sell)

Can't say I've ever seen someone selling old washing machines and driers at car boots.

I'm all for mend and make do however if it's not something Dad or myself can do it's never worth my while repairing something. Cost of labour has made repairs prohibitively expensive.

Are you basing your entire bonkers campaign off one single dodgy sale on adverts??

“One lady owner”

Yeah right; my grandma was no lady.

Why are you buying used microwaves when they can be had fairly cheap new? Here's a Microwave for a hundred euro

If you need to buy a second hand washing machine because you can't afford to buy a new one, how are you going to suddenly be able to afford buying a new washing machine if second hand ones are banned? You won't be able to buy a washing machine then.

Maybe your theory needs to be applied to very specific selection of appliances? I'd agree that nobody should be buying used microwaves and dryers. Not unless they're extremely high end well made models (I'd imagine most people just buy cheap/middle of the line stuff)

There's enough built-in obsolescence with electrical goods as it is, if they can be bought secondhand that will reduce waste when people opt for newer and shinier.

The EU is pushing for repair to become the norm rather than replace too.

You’re posting this like you’re an expert in

Accidentally posted before I finished writing. But I’m glad you still got my point.

Of course you need to be an expert before making absolute statements like “there’s no excuse. None. 0”. Because it’s a nonsense statement, and anyone who remotely know what they were talking about would never make it. The fact that you state that the RAM is “soldered to the logic board” is solid evidence of the laughable lack of knowledge you actually have.

The RAM in the modern Apple chips is not soldered to the logic board. It’s integrated into the CPU itself. If you don’t know the difference between that and being “soldered onto the logic board”, then you should probably go back to the basics, regardless of your teenage experience with “electronics” (whatever that’s supposed to mean exactly).

It’s done that way for the massive power and thermal savings the approach affords, which results in higher performance consuming lower power in a significantly smaller size. These are the very clear and obvious reasons for doing it. There is absolutely no way to have the RAM as a modular element in a SoC (System on a Chip) architecture. It would be like having your hippocampus as a separate organ to your brain.

For better or worse, once Apple decided to go down the route of SoC design (for the significant performance to power ratio it enjoys), then that decision was made for them. Yes, they could utilise an architecture that uses modular components - as they did in the past, and as other manufacturers do still. But they wouldn’t be SoC, and their computers would be bigger, more power hungry and more reliant on fans or active cooling than they are now.

The SoC design is not about saving money or making manufacturing easier (it’s more costly and more difficult to make). It’s simply a very specific and deliberate approach to performance.

My 1st thought on reducing ewaste is to remove the rule saying that someone can't pick something out of the ewaste skips outside of power city etc. Loads of stuff in there that is ripe for reuse as is or easy repair by people like myself with a little bit of knowledge.

Same as in the council recycling depots fridges dishwashers etc are full of unbroken drawers, shelves, clips, wheels etc that could save people loads of money on buying spares or scrapping there own. But no scavenging allowed is the rule.