Bottled water, paper plates, computer keyboards, disposable contacts, monitors, vacuum cleaners, VCR’s and millions of other goods are thrown away when they no longer work or served a short lived purpose. Things such as food containers have become a standard throw away item. That is what disposables are meant for. They have become a problem but are established as a part of life. Other things, such as major electronics, is tossed out because repairing them would be one of three things: physically difficult, as costly as the original or a new replacement, or inconvenient. It has become so common place to toss out non-functioning items that people are surprised when they discover services like iPod screen repair, iPhone screen repair, VCR repair services and other options to tossing out products that no longer function properly.