Under-utilization of finished products - like mobiles, computers and similar electronic goods - poses a big threat to nations across the world.

• What are the factors that make it happen?
• How dangerous is this in an environmental point of view?


Underutilization, by definition, is a consumer behaviour which discourages consumers from using a product to its maximum. There are several factors that make it happen, and environmentally speaking, it raises many concerns. Let me elucidate. 35 words

The primary factor that encourages underutilization is the frequent upgrading of technology. When manufacturers bring out new versions of computers and mobiles very frequently, people are forced to buy them discarding their old ones. For example, holding the latest mobile is a trend among people. Secondly, people these days enjoy great buying power which enables them to go for fresh purchases off and on. Thirdly, marketing exercises promoted by sellers and competition between different brands for heightened market share every year also encourages under-utilization. 90 words.

This lifestyle practice is extremely dangerous for the environment. Basically, this practice generates huge pile of electronic waste which non-degradable and toxic. Obviously, processing this waste is an ecological challenge. Secondly, when people abandon a product, there arises the need for fresh production, which leads to further industrialization, and what follows is a chain of actions detrimental to environment. Over exploitation of the ecology for raw material, rising need for fresh energy, extra pressure for natural resources like water and the like are a few links of that chain of action. 90 words

In short, under-utilization per se (as such) is an unhealthy practice worth discouraging at any cost. The environmental consequences it poses are dangerous enough to prove the same. That is what I feel about the whole issue.
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