/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2406104
The stores don't want them. It costs them money to dispose of shit that will never sell. Often times they are obligated to mutilate goods before weighting them off, most of the times they have to pay to ship it to a facility that charges to do this. Not only that it is extremely bad for the environment to cause all the harm to produce a product and then grind it up and burn it, burry it, or try to recycle it.

The store clearly doesn't mind or they would not set the price to $0.01 in their system. The manufacturer or producer or their competition would likely care as they don't want you blowing it out in faceborg marketplace, craigslist, eBay, flea markets, and garage sails because each one that enters commerce through such channels reduces their profit. But I don't care what the manufacturer thinks in such cases. This is the exact reason why apple grinds up bad cell phones, they don't want them or their components re-entering commerce, they got the original sale and if people can keep old products functional longer they aren't making new sales even though ecologically that is the best thing to do, and economically that is the best thing for society as a whole if your goal is (as it should be) to increase the total standard of living.