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breed of 39。sustainable designers39。. Like many of us, they are concerned about the huge waste associated with Western consumer culture and the damage this does to the environment. Some, like Chapman, aim to create objects we will want to keep rather than discard. Others are working to create more efficient or durable consumer goods, or goods designed with recycling in mind. The waste entailed in our fleeting relationships with consumer durables is colossal. Domestic power tools, such as electric drills, are a typical example of such waste. However much DIY* the purchaser plans to do, the truth is that these things are thrown away having been used, on average, for just ten minutes. Most will serve 39。conscience time39。 gathering dust on a shelf in the garage。 people are reluctant to admin that they have wasted their money. However, the end is inevitable。 thousands of years in landfill waste sites. In its design, manufacture, packaging, transportation and disposal, a power tool consumes many times its own weight in resources, all for a shorter active lifespan than that of the average small insect. To understand why we have bee so wasteful, we sh