If it's broke, many consumers fixing it

Published Aug. 8, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
America has long been thought of as a throw-away society. If your toaster went on the fritz, it seemed simpler to ditch it in favor of a new model. Same went for shoes, clothes, cars, shopping bags, lawn mowers – everything, it seemed, was disposable. That mind-set might soon be discarded, too.


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