When a manufacturing entity retains ownership of a product, it becomes accountable for its end-of-life management, whether it is a sofa, sweater or a shipping container, and the company is incentivised to extend product life cycles through repair, retrofit or upgrade. An example is the carpet...
Farm size varied both among and within strata and most respondents struggled to specify the exact size of their property, as fragmentation of cultivated land, lease of additional cropland and joint land ownership between family members were common. Two strata constituted exceptions to this trend: ...