| Topic: | Re:Stirling Road recycling centre | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 05/12/24 13:01:00 |
| That 'outlook' appears to be in your head Simon. Yes, it has become more difficult to find repairers locally and partly because people like you are so very negative about it. Maybe we can't grow bananas commercially here but we don't have a buy something new every time there is a glitch in the way something works. People don't usually just leave their cars sitting on the road when they stop working - they try and find out what the problem. The sooner that people realise how costly it is to them and the planet to just ditch something because it isn't working smoothly without giving it a second thought and do think about it and investigate the problem the sooner they will find out how satisfying it is to get to the bottom of a problem. You would think that you had never changed a light bulb or the belt on a vacuum cleaner or an oven light the way that you behave. E-spares have lots of spares for white goods so you can either cannibalise or buy a spare. Dyson couldn't get planning permission for what he wanted where he wanted so he took his business abroad and then bought up masses of land in the UK. I expect cheaper labour costs also came into the calculation. That might have made him rich but it doesn't necessarily make all his machines brilliantly designed! |