Comment by binaryturtle
1 day ago
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.
I just don't get how it is cheaper in total to produce more units and throw them away.
If you make more units, it's cheaper per unit. But doesn't it mean that waste is always a loss?
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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.