Obsolescência programada e sua relação com os padrões de produção e consumo: (in)sustentabilidade e perspectivas de enfrentamento

Abstract

The planned obsolescence increases since the beginning of the twentieth century, the production and consumption, with various consequences today as rising inequality, decline in employment, labor exploitation and environmental degradation. The waste strategy boosted capitalism and today sustains industries. In addition, with the phenomenon of globalization, being also responsible for the emergence of the consumer society and style of life overconsumerism, generating changes in social and especially environmental character.. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between planned obsolescence and current patterns of production and consumption in order to understand how the phenomenon of globalization has transformed this strategy into a world production standard, generating changes in social and environmental aspects, as well as analyzing its environmental degradation, the actions developed by the UN to address these problems and developed strategies aimed at creating sustainable production and consumption patterns. Finally, the objective is to analyze the legal perspectives of confrontation in Brazil in search of a legally viable solution to combat planned obsolescence. In conclusion, planned obsolescence was an important strategy for expansion of the capitalist system, becoming a common practice of industrial and socially acceptable due to the perceived obsolescence, however the consequences show that this system is not sustainable, mainly under the environmental prism. t is also concluded that the actions adopted by the UN have an important role of raising awareness and influencing the adoption of legislative measures within the States. It is also concluded that in Brazil, the current environmental legislation on solid waste is not yet effective in solving the growing generation of solid waste, due to the absence of a sector agreement in several market segments, for the mandatory implementation of reverse logistics, especially for the electronic waste, being the reverse logistics and consumer awareness still incipient. Finally, it is concluded that the Consumer Defense Code has the potential to face planned obsolescence , in order to provoke changes in the productive sector by discouraging the maintenance of such practice, by means of binding the warranty period and mandatory supply of parts for repair linked to the useful life of the product, which in respect of the information principle, should be obligatorily informed to the consumer. Was used the deductive method, as well as the inductive method in data analysis, and indirect documentation technique through books, scientific articles, statistics and international documents.