This could be by offering upgrades, easy repairs, some sort of remanufacturing.
Remanufacturing is sometimes called refurbishing.
Here's an example.
Apple sells refurbished computers, iPads, and other products.
These products have been checked, repaired if necessary, and
have a one-year warranty.
The next step in remanufacturing is upward remanufacturing.
In upward remanufacturing, the old product is disassembled and
it's cleaned, inspected.
It's repaired if necessary and it's upgraded with newer or
next generation components.
This produces a product that's not the original first generation product, but
a second generation product.
Theoretically, this could go on indefinitely if the original design was
done properly.
The original design needs to be designed with multiple life cycles in mind.
Probably through some sort of modularity that allows component clusters
to be removed, cleaned, repaired, or replaced.
Next, we need policies, markets and technologies.
That make identifying and
purchasing recycled materials easy with some sort of quality insurance.
This may mean limiting the types of plastic to some set
that can be sorted most easily.
So the pure resin streams can be reprocessed into their original polymers.
Already there's a lot of activity in this field with color recognition system,
bar code reading systems.
And get this, infrared laser beams that shine on plastic items.
They detect the different grades of plastic then little puffs of air
separate them into different bins.
We need to be able to maintain food supplies for
a growing population while maintaining soil fertility.
Depleted soils need to be restored,
in fact we need to begin thinking about how to create a restorative economy.
This work is starting, but it has a long way to go.