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Old 10-21-15 | 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnJ80
If we're worrying about environmental impacts of throwing things away instead of replacing them. Have you considered the carbon cost in sending it back? That's probably pretty hefty.

J.
I assume you're joking. The marginal fuel cost to put this on a truck or plane, on top of the other stuff already going, is immeasurably small.

But if you want to gauge it by the postage cost, you can do that. I think it's still less than the purchase.
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