Promoting the transition from the current linear production and consumption model to a green model has become a central issue in the debates on global warming and climate change [1] [2]. The way we design and produce our products directly affects the types and intensities of impacts generated on the environment and, consequently, on the planet [3]. However, with the aim of deliberately creating products with a shorter lifespan than they could have and making consumers purchase new products in short intervals of time, obsolescence has been used by industries as a tool to increase consumption. [ 4]. This problem is particularly noticeable in the smartphone production model. This article intends to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the current production and consumption model, proposing an analysis of the factors that influence the increase in smartphone consumption, highlighting both the motivating factors and the hindering factors, also intending to identify how such practices can violate several Brazilian laws [5]. To achieve this, research developed a questionnaire via Google Forms, applied to 186 people. The results show that external motivators (such as marketing incentives and social stimuli), internal motivators (self-actualization), external impediments (economic barriers) and internal impediments (barriers of mental awareness and perception of real need) were the four determining factors that influenced or prevented new consumption.

Promoting the transition from the current linear production and consumption model to a green model has become a central issue in the debates on global warming and climate change [1] [2]. The way we design and produce our products directly affects the types and intensities of impacts generated on the environment and, consequently, on the planet [3]. However, with the aim of deliberately creating products with a shorter lifespan than they could have and making consumers purchase new products in short intervals of time, obsolescence has been used by industries as a tool to increase consumption. [ 4]. This problem is particularly noticeable in the smartphone production model. This article intends to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the current production and consumption model, proposing an analysis of the factors that influence the increase in smartphone consumption, highlighting both the motivating factors and the hindering factors, also intending to identify how such practices can violate several Brazilian laws [5]. To achieve this, research developed a questionnaire via Google Forms, applied to 186 people. The results show that external motivators (such as marketing incentives and social stimuli), internal motivators (self-actualization), external impediments (economic barriers) and internal impediments (barriers of mental awareness and perception of real need) were the four determining factors that influenced or prevented new consumption.