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I have a Cutco brand ice cream scoop that's a couple decades old, and the plastic handle is slowly turning into disgusting goop. Cutco has a "forever" guarantee of replacement or repair, but I'm dithering over the most ethical course of action from here.
Thoughts?
"Dissolve off the tacky layer to get down to hard plastic" is not an option with the Cutco ice cream scoop, because as far as I can tell there is no hard plastic.
What I *could* conceivably do would be to somehow wrap the goopy plastic in tape, cloth, or cord of some kind. Or, if there's a way to get the plastic handle off, see if there's a way that a woodworker could fit it with a wooden handle. Not sure if that would work though: solid tang ice cream scoops aren't really a thing.
@dynamic If you need a new scoop, get one. That amount of plastic for a durable tool that you use is totally fine. Might as well ask for them to replace it, if it's a for-profit company there's no need to be nice to it, it doesn't have feelings (but do be nice to their customer service workers, don't ask too hard.) If they refuse, getting a tool like that every 20 years is reasonable, buy a new one and don't feel financially or environmentally bad about it.
Thanks.
Does your answer change at all if the tool in question is more of a "something nice to have once every six months or so" than something that gets daily use?
@dynamic If you'll use it 40 times over the next couple decades, IMO that's still worth it, a reasonable amount of consumerism. (Personally at that point I'd probably find it not worth the storage space but that's a different issue.)
@dynamic Unless you know Cutco would just throw away the return, I would return it. They might have their own recycling process.