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I hope you're complaining about the QUANTITY of mass-produced goods, not the ORIGIN of mass-produced goods?
Because the landfills don't care where it comes from, OP. Caring for the planetary environment is different from caring about national manufacturing. Two entirely different areas of concern!

Yes, we as humans (and Americans in particular, because we're worse than anyone else) should stop consuming only to throw stuff out at once. Single-used items are particularly to blame, except in fields where strict hygiene is needed.

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To be fair, the origin in this case is indicative of human rights violations, underpaid/ child labor, poor working conditions, etc. [/quote]

I try not to buy anything made in China because of the origin. The government of China has a vast network of forced labor camps and you don't have to be convicted of a crime to be imprisoned. I met Harry Wu many years ago. He was a human rights activist who spent 19 years in a forced labor camp for criticizing the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary. He was a college student when he did this. He said the one thing everyone could do is to not buy anything made in China, because it only strengthens the CCP. The list of reasons to not buy Made in China keeps growing:  the on-going genocide of the Uyghur people and the crushing of the protest and arrest of protesters in Hong Kong, and because of the way the CCP treats its own citizens. I don't want to buy things made by people imprisoned, tortured and killed.

There is a great book called "Made in China" by Amanda Pang.

The following is from: https://laogairesearch.org/museum/what-is-laogai/
The Laojiao – REEDUCATION THROUGH LABOR – acts as a form of “administrative detention” that serves to, as one regulation puts it, “reform idle, able-bodied people who violate the law and discipline and who do no decent work.” In practice, it serves as a form of ARBITRARY IMPRISONMENT of up to three years without the need for formal conviction or judicial due process of any kind. Forced Job Placement, or qiang-zhi-jiu-ye, was often given to prisoners after the completion of their sentence, allowing them to be HELD IN THE SYSTEM INDEFINITELY.

Institutions outside China’s official penal system are important cogs in the machinery of repression. Political dissidents, protestors, and petitioners may be DEEMED MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED TO PSYCHIATRIC DETENTION CENTERS or held in extrajudicial “black jails” hidden inside hotels and warehouses.

Those perceived as troublemakers or OUTSPOKEN CRITICS OF THE REGIME are frequently subjected to personal restrictions and house arrest.

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