Whilst public criticisms of an increasingly wasteful consumer society emerged already in late 19 th Century, the specific concept of a "Throwaway Society" was first used in the early 1960s. This note on a passionate debate around planned obsolescence and oversaturated consumers offers a short historical glimpse at a persistent, existential problem that still awaits effective solutions.
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