We Need the Right to Repair to Be Universal

Extracts

• “We need to empower those whose livelihood it is to prolong products’ lifespans. In other words, to make repair more mainstream and affordable, we must enable consumers to get their products repaired by the provider of their choice.”
• “Gatekeeping (independent) repair means encouraging waste creation”
• “independent repairers focus exclusively on prolonging the lifetime of goods and do not have any incentive to replace them”
• “most producers of electric and electronic equipment or their authorised repairers do not perform board-level repair”
• “they will only consider replacing the entire circuit board, which is often so expensive that the product is replaced instead”
• “An open repair ecosystem will offer easier, cheaper and more convenient repair options for consumers”
• “An open repair ecosystem will offer”