Evironmentaly Friendly??? Keeping repair costs down

[maltheviking]

🙁 I have just had to order two parts for a Zanussi Dishwasher, one the filter, the other, the heater cover, approx cost £47+Vat . + repair charge.

All that is required are the two breather tubes (small plastic turrets)not available as separate items, we now have throw away two perfectly good pieces of stainless.

The customer and myself cannot understand how Zanussi can be a”green company” with this amount of waste, the only obvious reason, PROFIT. It is well known that the plastic fittings inside Zanussi dishwashers (wheels/ runners etc) only last a short time, this particular one is less thatn 4 years old and may require replacing again, one happy customer!!!!

Unfortunatly its not just Zanussi that are environmentaly unfriendly other companies also give “lip service” to evironmental matters

I am not one for further legislation but I would be happy see to the manufacturers taken to task over this one.

Anyone priced a module or a drum assy. for the Ariston/ Indesit washer recently? Not economical to repair is the usuall answer, even though the appliance is less than two years old. Another one for the scrap.

Does mother earth deserve all this waste?.

We have a fuel crisis and it can only get worse, this again will give the manufacturers another to excuse to hike up the price of spares, not so bad if its same level as inflation but unfortunatly there is always that bit extra profit added.

I am not an out and out “greenie” but I cannot accept blatent wastage by manufacturers at the customers cost.

Please feel free to join in the disscussion and get it of your chest! Manufactuers also.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: Evironmentaly Friendly??? Keeping repair costs down

I am an out and out greenie. We don’t have much time left on this planet if you ask me. It’s a terrible shame that we’ll be taking so many other species with us to extinction or hell but human nature is human nature and there seems no way to change it quickly enough to avoid the inevitable 😥
Mike.

[maltheviking]

Re: Evironmentaly Friendly??? Keeping repair costs down

Fair point Mike, I believe the general populous don’t have to much of an interest in the environment, if you talk to the youth of today, they are quite happy just to throw out a two year old appliances, computers, mobile phones etc and buy a new one. They need educating at an early age in the home and school; unfortunately any education they get is bludgeoned out of them by the advertisers convincing them that they need the latest X BOX or PS thingy.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: Evironmentaly Friendly??? Keeping repair costs down

True what you say of many of the young. But it’s no less true of many of the old in my experience. We see the overflowing kitchen bins of all generations. There’s a lot of debate going on in the greenie sector and it’s spreading gradually out into the poulation at large but no-one really knows how to fix these problems.
Waste is just one aspect. Incinerators are common on the continent. But we are wary in this country of going down that route. Incinerators don’t actually achieve much except to concentrate all the most poisonous elements of the waste into a lightweight, difficult to handle fly ash (from the filters in the chimneys). That stuff can only be buried in specially approved landfill sites which hopefully won’t leak for a few years 🙄 . Only real solution would be to avoid making waste, and especially toxic waste, in the first place but we have hardly even begun on that long road yet and time is ticking away as all the landfill sites get filled up and nobody wants to have a new one near them.
Anyway, I could rant on for hours about this but if anyone is interested they only have to look at Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace websites etc. or perhaps look at Newsnight archives for example.
As repairers we can at least claim to be doing a little bit to alleviate the situation by trying to reverse the throw away mentality and advocating durable design.
Mike.

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