When is the last time you had some electronic product repaired? Didn’t you just throw away the defective product and get a new better one? Or not? I have come to view electronic equipment as basically ...

While the repair of electronic goods is often hidden from view, Julia Corwin went behind the scenes of India’s used electronics industry to show the environmental value of repair work. Most of us ...

Lawmakers in five states introduced a bill that aims to grant consumers the “right to repair” electronics, obligating manufacturers to sell replacement parts to owners and independent repair shops as ...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed the Digital Fair Repair Act into law as part of an omnibus appropriations bill, and it goes into effect on July 1, 2024. The law requires manufacturers to allow anyone, ...