The Environmental Consequences in a Process of Planned Obsolescence of Mobile Phones
Journal Title: American journal of Engineering Research - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
The waste coming from the cell phone becomes a problem in the allocation of these around the world, since the electrical and electronic equipment symbolize one of the fastest growing industrial markets today. Renew the product portfolio has just no longer a differentiator and becomes critical to a company remain competitive in the market. Knowing this, the mobile phone companies, take advantage of the opportunities to develop new handsets with software and increasingly technological design and modern, influencing consumer's desire to acquire new technologies and open the obsolete. In this sense, the article aims to analyze what the environmental consequences concerning the planned obsolescence of mobile handsets. For this, in addition to deepening theoretical, field research was carried out in the form of a questionnaire applied to consumers in General, participants responded that expect product characteristics, preferences, etc. Through the analysis it was possible to show that the vast majority of consumers return their appliances each year 1, this being the time the consumption and only 1% of consumers admit to discard the old appliance in proper place, therefore, becomes a worrying factor for sustainable development.
Authors and Affiliations
Sardo, Bianca Christine, Marques . , Moacir . , Vieira . , Thais Cristine
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