For example, the Sonicare Toothbrushes, when the rechargeable battery gets old, the whole thing is thrown out. Sending a lot of plastic into the environment. Why doesn’t Sonicare, produce a model that we can open to replace just the battery, when the time to replace battery comes around?
In the case of Hair Dryers, virtually all hair dryers on the market are energy hogs. Notice how the lights dim every time you turn on a hair dryer?
If there were a choice of models, some with a lower power consumption rate and a lower heat setting (instead of hot and very hot). Would make a great improvement on local power use in every metropolitan community.
For example, I used to have a very old model hair dryer, that had a dialed variable speed which made the dryer run at a low speed and lower temperature (hence lower use of power). died after 17 years of use. When I went to shop for a replacement, I found that the majority if hair dryers are virtually identical. There are so many that are basically the same, except for different colours and designer logos printed on them. But they all run at high speed/high output & drain a lot of power off of the grid.
If hair dryers didn’t have to use so much power, the Grid wouldn’t have to have so much standby power on – stand-by. Every time a bunch of folks suddenly turn on a bunch of hair dryers, is an abrupt drain on the grid, what happens when whole neighborhoods suddenly turn on their hair dryers – sudden power demand on the grid. Which draws power from where else – carbon producing generation plants.
Why aren’t manufacturers making more green environmentally conscious products, instead of producing the same old environmentally unfriendly polluting wasteful products?