Remanufacturing Doesn’t Always Make More Sense Than Building New Products

The conventional wisdom is that it always makes sense to reuse or remake products rather than to make new ones–why make a new tire when you can retread an old one, and why manufacture a new inkjet cartridge when you can refill a used one? But conventional wisdom is often wrong. In some cases, it may actually be more resource and energy-efficient to manufacture new products, according to a new study from MIT

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Remanufacturing Doesn’t Always Make More Sense Than Building New Products