IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push
This reads like a joke:<p><i>By making sustainable living more simple and accessible, Ikea hopes that the initiative will help its customers take a stand against excessive consumption this Black Friday and in the years to come</i><p>If you want to solve excessive consumption, you should do that exactly, which means tackling the problem itself and somehow achieving that people reduce the amount of things bought.<p>Offering recycling on the other hand doesn&#x27;t really do that - or at least, I am not aware of a mechanism psychological or otherwise which makes consumers buy less because of recycling. And even if it does isn&#x27;t it still a band-aid solution, and you&#x27;re still not dealing with the root cause? Moreover, it does seem recycling is a nice way both for IKEA and customers to buy themselves the comforting (but fake) feeling of doing something sustainable while at the same time keeping things going as usual. Or who knows, even increasing &#x27;hey I can recycle this so doesn&#x27;t matter if I buy more, I&#x27;m still doing my thing for the planet&#x27;.