The throwaway society, a rather contemporary terminology that describes people’s tendency of discarding goods only after a short life cycle, is not novel to most of the residents in economically developed areas these days. I think that there are some factors prompt this quickly spreading but worries social phenomenon and there will undoubtedly be some negative consequences of this trend. The significant boost in manufacturing productivity attributed to continuous technological breakthroughs is the first and foremost stimulus. Mass production and automatic assembly lines contributed in most factories nowadays substantially increase output, and hence, lower the cost of consumer goods. Household durables such as TV, fridge, and other hi-tech devices, for example, are affordable to ordinary citizens with an average income. As a result, compared to having broken appliances fixed, people enable replace them with a new brand over-the-shelf model that is not as costly as before but more time-

The throwaway society, a rather contemporary terminology that describes people’s tendency of discarding goods only after a short life cycle, is not novel to most of the residents in economically developed areas these days. I think that there are some factors prompt this quickly spreading but worries social phenomenon and there will undoubtedly be some negative consequences of this trend. The significant boost in manufacturing productivity attributed to continuous technological breakthroughs is the first and foremost stimulus. Mass production and automatic assembly lines contributed in most factories nowadays substantially increase output, and hence, lower the cost of consumer goods. Household durables such as TV, fridge, and other hi-tech devices, for example, are affordable to ordinary citizens with an average income. As a result, compared to having broken appliances fixed, people enable replace them with a new brand over-the-shelf model that is not as costly as before but more time-consuming and convenient for all families. In addition, due to the new modern technology devices with the latest functions are launched into the market by businesses once every few months. In order to benefits from the features, customers are often “tempted” to change their smartphone and the other more frequently than before even when they are still perfectly functioning.