What if we registered products and charged manufacturers when dumped?

Question

This is the only idea I have that I can imagine might curb the onslaught of cheap/unrepairable products from being created.When a manufacturer creates anything, before it's allowed to be sold to a member of the public, it gets registered with some global authority.Whenever you dump something in the local landfill, the manufacturer is charged for their product being dumped, not the consumer.The junk being dumped in landfills is not typically the consumer's fault.We all buy products in good faith that they are made well and will hopefully last us a lifetime.Why should we bear the brunt of disposing of some predatory manufacturer's built-to-fail product?Thoughts?

johnnyApplePRNG · Accepted Answer

I try fixing everything that I have ever bought before I am forced to throw it out, but some products are literally built to fail.
I bought a rechargeable electric razor once, worked for a few years, but eventually it wouldn't even run when plugged into the wall directly.
The reason? The power supply went through two incredibly cheap, soldered in, rechargeable batteries before it went to the motor.
I couldn't even circumvent the batteries, because the power that charged them was stronger than the power the motor drew.
So frustrating.

gus_massa · Answer

A few days ago, someone posted that where s/he lives you can get some money returning aluminum cans to the recycling center (or something like that). But the cans must not be crushed, because they must scan the barcode to identify the producer. The problem is that it is very inefficient to carry a lot of uncrushed cans, so this makes recycling more difficult.Identifying the products in their way to the landfill may be difficult.

aww_dang · Answer

The consumer would still bear the costs either way.