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Supply change: Risks and Opportunities     

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• Natural Resources
  
  Positive: Responsible mining of valuable resources
  Negative: Forced and dangerous labor, environmental degradation of land and rivers
• Component issues
  
  Positive: Single material constructions
  Negative: Long complex disassembly time, designs containing toxic materials
• Design issues
  
  Positive: Designs for disassembly, refurbishment & reuse of valuable resources
  Negative: Poor quality design, toxic components, designed for obsolescence and multiple configurations
• Assembly issues
  
  Positive: Highly motivated and productive workforce
  Negative: Sweatshops and discharging toxic waste
• Transportation issues
  
  Positive: Real time visibility and trading schemes will create new markets
  Negative: Excessive cost with airfreight, excessive time with ocean freight
• Sales issues
  
  Positive:
  Negative:
• Product Usage
  
  Positive: Consumer preference drives consumption
  Negative: Excess energy usage, overconsumption and overproduction
• Product Refurbishment opportunities
  
  Positive: Extending lifecycle at low investment
  Negative: Poorly designed products with short lifecycles
• E-waste issues
  
  Positive: Effective collection of product remains
  Negative: Dispersed product discarding
• Recycling issues
  
  Positive: Money for valuable resources
  Negative: Landfill shortages and groundwater and soil contamination