happy_hawking t1_iqr1am5 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM

Reply to comment by darkarrow0 in My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke

You're right, I found this paper (in German) which explains the relations between resource consumption in production and in daily use on page 7: https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/FAQ-Langlebigkeit-elektronische-Produkte.pdf

"It can take up to 40 years to compensate for the additional resource use if you replace a washing machine from 2000 with a new one today".

Whatever that means for a 33 years old dryer. 33 years feels pretty close to break even. Depending on the amount of savings that were implemented in the years before 2000 it might already be crossed ...

I also learned that the biggest waste of all is that everyone has their own washing/drying machine instead of sharing it with others ...