Obsolescência planejada na sociedade de consumo e o desenvolvimento do consumo sustentável

Abstract

This work deals with the practice of planned obsolescence in disagreement with consumerist principles and the Consumer Protection Code, as well as environmental impact solutions caused by this practice. Initially, consume society is approached by the vision of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Contemporaneous society is characterized by the consumerism, the society growth and the disposable product. Besides that, self-consumerism was highlighted as a form to indicate what is the consume degree each consumer have. Then, planned obsolescence is conceptualized, what is its classification and its history. An analysis of the consumerist principles foreseen on the Consumer Protection Code was also made, responding to the planned obsolescence practice, with the principles of vulnerability, good faith and transparency, and, also, the protection against abusive practices. Lastly, an approach was made about the impacts caused by the electronic trash that was incorrectly discarded and in an exacerbated way because of the planned obsolescence practice, suggesting the development of the sustainable consume as a possible solution against the planned obsolescence.