Manufacturers should be made responsible for disposal. This would provide an incentive to make products last and be repairable.
A better incentive would be to require manufacturers to sell unlimited (yearly) warranty for their products. When you buy a product, you'll get the option to pay a yearly renewable sum that guarantees that any failings from normal use will be repaired. Such a requirement will make the seller optimize the product for affordable longevity and make it cheap and easy to repair the product. A significant number of consume…
If you're willing to keep paying indefinitely to always have a working product, at a price that is economically viable for the manufacturer, are you sure you really want to buy anything?
Wouldn't you much rather have a lease with option to purchase?