I previously posted about how Beko kill-switched two of my washing machines to block me from using them – to force me to throw them away. I happened to be on a site of an e-waste manager or something, and found this astonishing claim that Beko/Arçelik is:

“working together to build a sustainable cirular solution for the washing machines manufacturing industry”

If they want a sustainable circular economy, why not just publish their kill switch reset codes?

Sadly, the link ultimately just leads to a shitty youtube video (which I can’t access). But after wrestling with a dozen fully enshitified Youtube transcript sites, notegpt.io was at least willing to give me a fucking transcript. This is it, with my highlights:

00:01 have you ever wondered how your consumption of electronic Goods can be greener waste from Electrical Products also known as E-Waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world with almost 57 million tons generated in 2021 the same weight as 5700 Eiffel Towers it is predicted this will rise to 74 million tons by 2030 with less than one-fifth of this officially collected for recycling it is an issue that needs addressing not only so that more is recycled but so that E-Waste is prevented in the first place 00:39 sea surveys aims to make electrical products that are more easily repaired refurbished and recycled the project focuses on four types of devices washing machines printers sensors that monitor network connections and televisions as part of this it is designing new business models and digital Concepts that reflect the principles of the circular economy and can be easily adopted by other product manufacturers across the world this will increase the lifespan of these products and reduce the waste they 01:11 create archilic a household appliances manufacturer is the industry partner for the televisions archilic joined the Cesars project to support our transition to Circular business models such as leasing repairing and secondhand sales being part of the project has enabled us to focus closely on one of our models of Television looking at all the specs of it from design through manufacture to the way it is both used and disposed of the outcome is a product with a much lower environmental impact the design 01:49 phase of a TV has been critical to the work that archilic has undertaken at this very early stage the different circular elements have been considered and integrated during the project the bank cover of the television was produced using 30 recycled plastic and it is planned that this will be increased to at least 60 percent in the future the use of the QR Code system developed by project Partners secularize enables artelec to track recycled components from the supplier to the production stage and also allows the 02:22 customer to access warranties environmental data and other product details 3D printed parts are available for the feet of the television and are aimed at enabling refurbishment at sites throughout the world as it allows the part to be printed locally refurbishment options and training materials are also provided leasing of the televisions to businesses has been successfully tested during the project and has resulted in archelec making plans to introduce leasing options for private consumers as well 02:54 scissors has an opportunity for archilic to look deeper into our Clarity and throughout our volume chain we will now see this experience and knowledge and see how we can apply it to a wider range of products visit c-serviceproject.eu to find out more about everything the team has done to achieve its goal