🌿 Let's embrace the 4 R's: Reduce, reuse, recycle... and repair!
Today, the European Parliament adopted the 'Right to Repair' Directive. By promoting repairs both within and beyond the legal guarantee, it will soon mean:
🟢 Easier product fixes
🟢 Money saved
🟢 Less waste
By repairing and using our goods for longer, EU consumers can not only practice sustainable consumption but also save a significant amount of money in the process!
@EU_Commission Guess what? I repaired the link to the actual legislation: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/rules-promoting-repair-goods_en
@EU_Commission so where are the parts, schematics and 500 pages service guides that should be mandatory?
@EU_Commission It should be ensured that the repair parts are not as expensive as a new device. That's what any industry likes to do, which is absurd.
@EU_Commission Awesome! Been taking things apart only to find that every fucking thing is cast in several centimeters of epoxy and the rest is made with connectors that explode to a million plastic pieces if pried open. Didn't stop me, but would have been nicer not to have dug into the epoxy and replace all connectors.
Seems like I'll fix even more things in the future \o/
@EU_Commission really neat, I hope you guys force change on this side of the pond too with your size!
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@EU_Commission Meanwhile in the UK: "Lets deport Refugees to a dangerous country"
Yayy. Lucky us on Clown Island! /s
@EU_Commission right to repair for hardware is great. Needs to be accompanied by right repair / modify for software.
@EU_Commission
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@EU_Commission Nice to see that "reduce" is back!
@EU_Commission , the order is important.
1. Reduce,
2. Repair,
3. Reuse,
4. Recycle.
@EU_Commission
Thanks for taking the lead on this.
I wish we in the colonies could get our act together and follow the EU. . right now we are fighting to save our #democracy
