How to fix our fast furniture fix

“From the comfort of our sofas, it’s a giant footprint and a major waste category that many of us are barely aware of. And with diminishing quality feeding our throwaway mindset, are we beginning to get stuck in a perpetual cycle?” [The Fast Furniture Fix: BBC Radio 4]

It was back in 1999 when the iconic Fight Club took us into Ikealand:

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The Ikea nesting instinct continued with Spike Jonze a couple of years later:

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And here we are now, stuck with fast furniture:

I’ll actually start this video by pointing towards some of the good initiatives put forward by Ikea in recent years – before we get into the dirty stuff...

Why I don’t shop at IKEA // the impact of fast furniture

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IS IKEA ACTUALLY SUSTAINABLE ? // the impact of fast furniture – YouTube

It’s the subject of a documentary on Radio 4 this evening:

Fair fashion campaigner and influencer Venetia La Manna sets out to discover how the ways we produce, consume and value furniture have transformed over recent decades, and what that means for our homes and the planet. From the comfort of our sofas, it’s a giant footprint and a major waste category that many of us are barely aware of. And with diminishing quality feeding our throwaway mindset, are we beginning to get stuck in a perpetual cycle?

The Fast Furniture Fix – BBC Sounds

Other fast furniture is available:

A Billy bookcase is made every three seconds. But with a third of people admitting to throwing away furniture that they could have sold or donated, does the cheap furniture boom have a heavy environmental price?

Silly Billy: what the Ikea bookcase tells us about the true cost of fast furniture | Homes | The Guardian

It’s an international waste problem:

How Cheap ‘Fast Furniture’ Could Soon Clog Landfills – The New York Times

It’s a design and lifestyle problem:

The Fast Furniture Problem | Architectural Digest

It’s a climate emergency problem:

Fast Furniture Is Ruining Our Climate Change Agenda | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

There are solutions: