# The Lights Are Going Down on a Throwaway Equipment Culture

By Ruari McCallion · Published 2021-08-11 · Updated 2026-04-03 · Industrial IoT on MarketScale
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> Simply throwing out electrical equipment and updating to ‘this year’s model’ is wasteful, expensive and causes problems of pollution and toxins, especially in emerging economies. It does not have to be this way.     “We have noticed that the vast majority of issues that organizations tend to blame on software are actually about hardware components and…

## Key points

- Simply throwing out electrical equipment and updating to ‘this year’s model’ is wasteful, expensive and causes problems of pollution and toxins, especially in emerging economies.
- It does not have to be this way.
- “We have noticed that the vast majority of issues that organizations tend to blame on software are actually about hardware components and…

*Simply throwing out electrical equipment and updating to ‘this year’s model’ is wasteful, expensive and causes problems of pollution and toxins, especially in emerging economies. It does not have to be this way.*

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