A host of household appliances including TVs, fridges, freezers and washing machines will be easier to repair after new EU laws were formally adopted on the 1st of October. For the first time, manufacturers will be obliged to make their products easier to take apart and fix. Companies will also need to provide spare parts […]

For the past few years, environmental organisations, repair businesses and citizen activists from around the world  have had enough of a system that makes repairing electronics particularly hard and contributes to million tonnes of e-waste being sent to landfills every year.  Grassroots repair cafés and restart parties are providing repairs for products where there is […]