@HalvarFlake Yeah, that’s what cradle to cradle design is about, essentially. There's already quite a few vendors doing it, voluntarily, but they sort of get drowned out by everyone else who just goes for the cheapest bidder.
One big step forward would be to require that the vendor recycle their product within the country it is sold in, in such a way that it cannot be re-re-re-exported and eventually end up somewhere on a burn pile in Africa or South East Asia.