Comment by watermelon0
1 day ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?
1 day ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?
Many years ago I worked in the printing industry. F.ex. a client wants 100 products of something (e.g. posters or flyers), usually it was more cost effective to produce a 1000 (or more) and then throw away 900 the client didn't need. Obviously a huge waste of material.
Isn't that law exactly trying to avoid that kind of waste?
Yes. But in some cases the waste will be avoided by not doing a production run at all if the minimum production quantity is too high and the law prohibits destroying the unwanted product.
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For printers, the cost is pretty much all in the setup. Printing 1000 copies costs about the same as printing 20.
1k in this example would be the minimum needed to make it worth the static cost of setting up and tearing down the production run.