• Nighed@sffa.community
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    1 year ago

    Even reading the article, I’m not clear - when they say dumping, do they mean that these are used units that they are effectively recycling by reselling to other countries (good?) Or companies deliberately building piles of bad units that don’t meet local standards to export (bad)?

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      1 year ago

      Dumped air-cons refer to those produced by various brands that do not meet the minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) in the brands’ own domestic markets. They end up being exported to places with less stringent standards.

      I’d go by the explanation offered under the subsection “What is a dumped air conditioner”

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      1 year ago

      Stuff cheap to make but impossible to sell to westerners because of stringent laws. Just like cigarettes and asbestos.

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      Especially considering you don’t really trash these I don’t understand what “dumped” is.

      Air conditioners are very valuable as scrap, if we’re talking about bad units