‘... Government bureaucracy makes it damned immposible... .’
You are correct. Bureaucracy creates a large part of this waste. Easier to toss than to hassle with Government regulations.
I think we are a throw-away society. I’d rather go to a flea market for my furniture than to Ikea, but everyone else wants Ikea, which generates more cardboard waste, and the products aren’t nearly as good as older furniture from flea markets.
Just me. (There’s some liberal in me somewhere.)
My son furnished his entire first apartment(except a new matress) from furniture bought on Facebook Marketplace.
Used furniture is worth 25% or less of its original price.
“I’d rather go to a flea market for my furniture than to Ikea...”
10-4. Most of our furniture is “used” from the Victorian era. It’s solid wood - quarter-sawn oak, birdseye maple and southern walnut - not pressed cardboard from commie China.