Wasted article.

• Author: Dexheimer, Derek
• Position: Letter to the editor

I was deeply disappointed that Elisabeth Jeffries ("E-Wasted," July/August) did not question her article's unspoken premise that planned obsolescence and its resulting torrent of electronic "waste" are acceptable. Solving the problem with extended producer responsibility statutes is not examined as just another bolt-on solution that does nothing to address root causes. Astonishingly, nothing is said about the role of cheap energy in enabling our electronic orgy, or how we will clean things up when energy is no longer cheap.

The colossal and systemic...