Suppose you make light bulbs. You can make a light bulb that lasts 1000 hours or 20,000 hours for about the same costs. For highest profit, you would make the one that lasts only 1000 hours so you could sell 20 times as many and make the most profit. This choice wastes more natural resources but gives the highest profits. So it is in many industries.
Industry loves consumables and obsolescence because it generates the most revenue.
Any company which tries to introduce the better, longer lasting product is bought out, destroyed through market or legal manipulation or threats, or perhaps shut down through financial or legislative means. Such is the desire for self preservation and greed for highest return on investment, highest profit. Therefore, only limits to wealth and a guaranteed comfortable income can prevent the profit motive from destroying the environment through the waste of precious natural resources. History has shown that morality is always sacrificed for security and self preservation. To prevent this, security and self preservation must be guaranteed by the society.